Woody!

[Ben-Ro]

I'm sitting at my desk this morning working away like a good little lemming should, when I happen to glance down at two copper pennies I have sitting on my computer. I noticed one had a strange pattern on it, didn't look like scratches or post mint damage. So I looked it up...

Turns out there's cents nicknamed "woodys". They look like wood due to a poor alloy mix...from what I understand. I'd never seen this variety mentioned on this forum so I thought I'd post some pictures. Does anyone here collect these?

 

[Bigheed]

never heard of it, looks neat though!

 

[CoinFetcher]

Thought you were talking about me..

 

[usandthem]

IMHO woodys are far too common to collect. They are cool though.

 

[minkybodl]

I have noticed some nickels that looked like that also, didn't keep them but they looked about the same as your cent. I had never heard of it. It does look neat on the pennies.

 

[frankendime]

no comment lol