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I'm sorry but IMHO, none of your wheat cents are woodies. the fact that their the same
color and all basicly have some black dirt or crud. leads me to believe that they might have been all cleaned with some kind of chemical or vinegar.
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Got me uruman idk. I was asking about alloy mixes and woodies the other day from another post and they said gold is an ok color. But I've never seen gold wood before. Then they say that it has to do with it looking grainy yours look grainy to me . But I posted some the other day that where brown and grainy and they said it wasn't so honestly the only thing a woody is to me is a incorrect mix of alloy. Not all yours look right but most do. So to me they are all woodies by that definition the close up musts looks funny cause the lighting but the far away pic looks right
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06/16/2015 8:12 pm
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T-bop these woodies have been in rolls for over 50 years store in a attic with aluminun paper inside the paper rolls, and to me they don't look that have been clean, but I appreciated your opinion anyhow.
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I used to think these sort of coins looked tampered with too, but after becoming a lot more familiar with circulated wheats from that era - late teens to early '30s - that is a natural look. Nice coins.
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Pillar of the Community
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Uruman where did you get these
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Pillar of the Community
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tweak800An old friend of mine that used to be a dealer on the 80's put them away in his attic in Houston Tx (hot summers) and let me go through them and take all I find interesting. I went through 100's of roll of cents ,dimes, nickels, quarters and halves.
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Nice circulated woodies .
Sounds like a treasure trove to go through!
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Pillar of the Community
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I want an opportunity like that. I litterally ask everyone I come across if they have coins in hopes of finding a hoard one day.
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I'm on fence again, as the first pick look promising for some woody's. The close up's though show signs of (harsh) cleaning to some.
Being stored as is out of circulation from 50 years ago makes it hard to tell if some were cleaned then wrapped. Rookies thoughts. But I'm still looking and learning. Thanks, Doug.
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Halo, the reason the first pic is convincing is because it is the one that more than likely is the closest to being color balenced , thus giving us the look we expect to see.
Iused to experiment with obviously cleaned cull large cents to try and bring back that natural look which these cents in the first pic exibit. Never was entirely successful. I beleave a chemical "shine" that was once given to many coins to "enhance" them , actually leaches out parts of the metal that play a vital role in developing that natural brown look.
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I like the first 1917 the most.
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