A uniface is a reference to a one sided Coin or Banknote, usually issued in low denomination, in times of war or in the early evolution of coins and banknotes.
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uniface: Having a design on one side only.
unique: Extant in only one known example. Very often misused, as in "semi-unique." ...
Essai uniface d'avers de 40 francs par Droz - sd (1815)
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Uniface Strikes
Uniface coins occur when there have been two blank planchets in the press at the same time. The other blank will obstruct the die on either the obverse or reverse side, which will prevent it from having that design on the coin.
Uniface
Refers to a coin with a design on only one side, the other side blank.
Uniface Coin stuck with design on one side only.
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Uniface
A coin struck with the design on one side only.
Unique
This is a coin of which only one is known to exist.
Uniface
A coin which has been struck with a design on one side only. The other side is blank. Normally uniface coins are patterns but ocassionally are found as errors caused by a faulty striking process.
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Uniface - A coin with a design on just one side. Normally as a pattern or trial piece.
Unique - Only one example known ...
Uniface - A coin that is just strike in one side.
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VAM - Any variety of U.S. silver dollar described in the book Morgan and Peace Dollars by Van Allen and Mallis.
UNIFACE
A numismatic item struck on one side only, intentionally or otherwise, the other side being blank.
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Uniface - Showing a design on one side only.
Universal Rarity Scale - A scale that measure's degree of rarity.
uniface
Having a design on one side only.
unique
In coin collecting terms extant in only one known specimen. Very often misused, as in semi-unique.
Some uniface die trials examples survive of the both the obverse (2) and reverse (4) of the Large Eagle variety and the obverse (1) and reverse (1) of the Small Eagle copper; Hancock also produced a Large Eagle patterns without a denomination.
Counterfeit uniface trial struck on a thin planchet.
According to Gee, the die made from the stolen electrotype wasn't good enough so he had it retooled (touched up) before this piece was struck.
For the full story, see item 18 in the bibliography.
So if you see a uniface coin for sale what lessons should you take from this?
Uniface Proof of back design. Type of F-1. Series of 1861. Crisp Uncirculated. Listed in the Gene Hessler reference, though without an attribution number. Printed on thin India paper and mounted on heavy card.
During the medieval period, from roughly 1200 to 1300, the central European states struck a most unusual coin, a thin uniface piece in silver, today called "bracteates" (they called them pfennigs, as they did two-faced coins).
Splasher - popular name used to defined uniface die and hub trials.
Specific gravity - "The ratio of the weight of a given volume of a substance to the weight of an equal volume of some reference substance (water), or equivalently, ...
The punch on reverse was often struck in such a way that it is hardly visible on most coins, thus giving this series appearance of being uniface.
It is the proper name for uniface base silver pfennigs struck with a convex die between 1368 and the end of the 16th century.
This piece was struck 10% off-center with a uniface reverse. This discovery was a front page Coin World article on August 7th, 2000.
This cash coin is uniface and roughly cast, and has the inscription "yi tao" - one knife - on its obverse. Its clear that this cash coin was of the type that replaced the knife coinage ca. 225BC.
22 NEPAL. Girvan Yuddha Vikrama. (1799-1816). Gold Dam or 1/128 Mohar. Uniface. One of the thinnest & lightest coins ever made. KM-535, Fr-14. VF-EF $30 ...
Back when dies were "cut" by hand, the engraver would periodically stamp the die into a piece of soft metal to see how the work was progressing (these are generally uniface stampings on oversized or irregularly shaped blanks).
Nepal, Anonymous Issue under Prithvi Vira Vikrama, Dam, SE1803-1833/VS1938-1968 (1881-1911 AD)
Four characters around sword
Uniface (incuse design of obverse)
Plain edge
Gold, 0.0400g, 7mm
Mintage: Unknown
KM 660 ...
Agrippina JR Æ Sestertius. Balkan mint (?). Struck by Claudius, circa 50 (?)-54 AD. AGRIPPINA AVG GERMANICI F CAESAR[IS A]VG, draped bust right / Uniface. cf. BMC pg. 195 note.
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During the first phase of the Livonia War, the necessity money - uniface thalers, called silver gulden, and gold guldens were struck to cover the war expenses, but this coinage was not in accordance with the Livonia Confederation minting rules.
These restrikes can easily be distinguished from the originals as they exhibit evidence of tooling to correct flaws in the badly rusted dies. Other restrikes and uniface examples of this date are known in white metal.
The $1 Panama Pacific trial piece was struck in silver at the Philadelphia mint at some unnamed date in the spring of 1915, before the working dies went to San Francisco. There are also uniface impressions of both obverse and reverse dies, ...
This caused the reverse to display a stretched out, distorted image of the original strike in that area or what is referred to in the hobby as "Uniface Reverse." It is valued at approximately $650 to $700.
of previous strikes, being very close together due to the high speed machinery. What makes this type even more desirable is the appearance of more than one date, as well as the presence of the reverse image on the strikings (in lieu of uniface ...
Die strikes or die trials are impressions, usually uniface, of an unfinished or even a completed die in a soft metal to try the die.
uniface: A coin struck with one face blank
variety: A coin which features a slightly different design from that which is normally seen
virgin hoard: A hoard not yet searched for key dates or varieties ...
 See also: Coin, Reverse, Revers, Struck, Obverse
  
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