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Hi! My name is Joe Kendall. I have been collecting since 1964. I'm a fourth generation Coin Collector. I began with my Grandfather in 1964, and my Mother the next year. My Parents owned a business and I got to go through the days receipts looking for interesting coins. My Grandfather was part owner of the Lucky/Silver Spur Casino in Carson City Nevada. As a young boy I can remember sitting on mint sewn bags of Silver dollars to do my homework. One of my jobs was to go through the coins in the counting room and pull out anything on a list my grandfather gave me. This was usually pretty generic. For instance any seated coinage was pulled. Any Morgan 1892-95. Any Morgan that would be considered DMPL. Though we didn't use that term then. Gramps just liked the looks of them. All Mercs,Buffalo's and Barbers; SLQ's, and Indian Head Cents ( remember we still had Penny slots back then!). I generally pulled all the BU Wheats I could find. Now that didn't mean we kept them. MOST of the LWC's, Mercs and many of the Buffalo's were put back in.
Currently I am engaged in sorting through the inventory of a long time Dealer. We purchased his Lincoln Inventory. He would buy them at 2 cents each and then put them into 5000 count bags. Always with the intention of "getting to them someday". Unfortunately "Someday" never came. His estate sold us the bags for face value, as most of the money was made in Gold and Silver. We even bought bags of Buff's for 7 cents per coin.
I have searched through 50 bags so far. Surprisingly most really were unsearched. A few were not only searched, but had been searched again! I have found one 1909-S (non vdb); four 1910-S; one 1914-D; and one 1922-"weak" D. On the way through all this searching I developed in interest in RPM's, OMM's, and other varieties. But my passion right now is Woody's. I have well over 5000 woodies. And can just about count at least one for every year and mm of the LWC series. The only ones I don't have are the ones easiest/most expensive one to Purchase; the 1909-S VDB. Oh, and I don't have one for the 1914-D yet either.
I am about half way through writing a book on Woodies. The research has been fascinating and I have talked to Engineers, and Metallurgist to discuss striking properties; alloys; rockwell hardness and the like.
My most interesting Woody is one with a strip of pure tin going through the obverse.
Currently I am engaged in sorting through the inventory of a long time Dealer. We purchased his Lincoln Inventory. He would buy them at 2 cents each and then put them into 5000 count bags. Always with the intention of "getting to them someday". Unfortunately "Someday" never came. His estate sold us the bags for face value, as most of the money was made in Gold and Silver. We even bought bags of Buff's for 7 cents per coin.
I have searched through 50 bags so far. Surprisingly most really were unsearched. A few were not only searched, but had been searched again! I have found one 1909-S (non vdb); four 1910-S; one 1914-D; and one 1922-"weak" D. On the way through all this searching I developed in interest in RPM's, OMM's, and other varieties. But my passion right now is Woody's. I have well over 5000 woodies. And can just about count at least one for every year and mm of the LWC series. The only ones I don't have are the ones easiest/most expensive one to Purchase; the 1909-S VDB. Oh, and I don't have one for the 1914-D yet either.
I am about half way through writing a book on Woodies. The research has been fascinating and I have talked to Engineers, and Metallurgist to discuss striking properties; alloys; rockwell hardness and the like.
My most interesting Woody is one with a strip of pure tin going through the obverse.
Be verwy verwy quiet... I'm hunting coins!!! 
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