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The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 43, October 19, 2014, Article 11

VOCABULARY WORD: TYPOGRAPHIC

Ralf Böpple writes:

A while back there was an article in The E-Sylum discussing the technical term for a medal with only text on both sides. I have tried several searches in the E-Sylum archives, but could not locate anything. Any chance that you remember the word, can do some magic with the search engine, or can ask Mr. Johnson, who as I take it knows everything in this regard?

Great question. So I did both, or tried to. First, I looked for the original article reference, and came up empty as well. I put the question to Dick Johnson, who quickly replied, "The answer is typographic. "

Aha! Armed with that tidbit I located the article Ralf had seen. It had been published in July 2011. Good memory, Ralf! Here's an excerpt. -Editor

Charley became so familiar with the artists of political medals he could often identify the engraver of unsigned pieces. For example, he attributed nine such pieces to engraver James Bale (active 1824-1851). Q. David Bowers assigned two others to this same artist. These were all typographic pieces (without pictorial devices). These attributions were later verified by Wesley Cox, who made a study of diesinkers' letter punches and their diagnostic shapes (and reported by Russell Rulau).

Dick sent me a copy of his encyclopedia entry for the word, meaning a numismatic item with one or both sides having only lettering and no design or image. Thanks! QUICK QUIZ: What's the OPPOSITE of typographic? What do you call a piece with ONLY a design and NO lettering at all? -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
A FEW REMEMBRANCES OF CHARLES MCSORLEY (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v14n29a08.html)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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