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chadcoins Pillar of the Community Canada 1159 Posts	Posted 02/26/2023 8:50 pm Not sure if we ever discussed coins or Tokens struck only on one side. Here is an example of a 1966 Anthony Henday 10ct sized nickel Token struck by the Sherritt Mint in 1966. This was a test strike and first coins struck by there 50 ton press. They made the plank side purposely. Like to see some others out there especially our circulation strikes. Lets see what you got out there, might be interesting. Report this Post to the Staff

HondoB Bedrock of the Community United States 25030 Posts	Posted 02/26/2023 9:44 pm Many trade tokens were struck on one side only, as this was less expensive. Consider this Gheens & Bro. - Gheens, Louisiana (Crawford and Farber 3472 A-100 or C-100) from the early 20th century. Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures Report this Post to the Staff
chadcoins Pillar of the Community Canada 1159 Posts	Posted 03/08/2023 11:50 am Here is a 1971 BC Confederation Token only struck on one side. There Brassy one was struck on both sides. Report this Post to the Staff
okiecoiner Pillar of the Community Canada 5585 Posts	Posted 03/08/2023 1:21 pm There was a thread on exactly the same topic with great pics on another coin site, but I forget which one. Try on this CaC forum, but the one that I saw a few weeks/months ago dealt with single-sided ones. http://coinsandcanada.com/forum/sea...canada+token Edited by okiecoiner 03/08/2023 1:29 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16810 Posts	Posted 03/08/2023 7:33 pm Nitpicking technicality: An implication of Newton's Third Law is that it is impossible to "strike a coin on only one side". If a die comes down onto a coin blank and there is no other die to catch it and force the compression of metal, then a coin cannot be made. It's the numismatic equivalent of a strike in baseball: a swing and a miss, and nothing actually happens. If it's a "coin", or a coin-like object made in the same fashion as a coin, then it must have been struck on both sides. So rather, it is best to describe it as a "coin that is blank on one side" or to give it its fancy-numismatist Latin name, "uniface"; the other side is made using either a specially prepared blank die, or (in the case of items like the Gheens token posted above) a plain anvil-like surface. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
ironhorse Valued Member Canada 363 Posts	Posted 03/08/2023 8:15 pm ^^ I agree...uniface is the term So here is one of my favourite tokens..PEI Mccausland penny (PE-2) Also I have many maverick counterstamped coins that would qualify as uniface too. Neat thread Report this Post to the Staff
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