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Nice coins. That 1920 LWC is nice. In 1920 the Philly mint installed new electric furnaces for their bronze coinage, and they also bought a large number of prepared planchets from an outside contractor. That dark strip is probably from a section of material that is an alloy of copper and tin, which cools at a different rate than bronze, brass( or any of the many brass alloys possible), or pure copper. I have a few woodies that have, what look like, pure tin inclusions. |
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05/09/2016 2:49 pm
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I am bumping this before it gets lost! 1915 Lincoln:   |
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I am bumping this before it gets lost! A very worthy bump!  |
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 That's quite a coin! I know I said I would post all those woodies I got, but it took forever just to photograph the first few so when I have time, I'll probably just pick a few of the nicest ones. |
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..it took forever just to photograph the first few so when I have time, I'll probably just pick a few of the nicest ones. Numisma, right? I was thinking, I want to photograph them anyways.. eventually.. And there has to be still folks on this forum with more woodgrain eye candy.. |
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Threw this in with the photo queue for coins today.. Bahrain 1970 25 Fils:  |
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I love this coin, maybe since it is big and copper:  |
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Those are some gorgeous wood grain toned coins mamastinky!
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Lovely coins, mamastinky. |
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Wow mama. That 15 is killer. And what a strike! I'd get that boy slabbed if it were mine. Wait till BadThad sees it  The 09 is cool too but I can almost pluck lincolns wiskers with a pair of tweezers on that 15! It almost looks fake. Killer! |
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Thanks, folks. The foreign coins were all plucked from bins and bags. Except for the Canadian cent above, my husband bought that for me as a surprise for a couple of bucks on ebay.  Now, time for some centavos mexicanos.. 1946 10 Centavos:  1943 20 Centavos:  |
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Wow, those are very nice.  |
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