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The E-Sylum: Volume 24, Number 30, July 25, 2021, Article 14

VOCABULARY TERM: FACE MILLED

Here's another entry from Dick Johnson's Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Terminology. I added some Love Token images. -Editor

Face Milled. A smoothed or flattened surface, milled or planed or ground off; said of a medallic or numismatic item in which one or both sides have been smoothed off to be engraved with a new design and/or lettering. Usually it is the reverse which is face milled with the obverse of the coin or medal left intact. All love tokens are so smoothed before they are engraved. It is easiest to remove all relief, including the border, until an absolutely flat surface is obtained across the full flan – it is also possible to face mill both sides, in a sense to make a blank from a struck piece. In rare instances only the relief is ground off one side leaving the raised border intact. Face milling is also done for some hand punched items, very infrequently for counterstamping.

Papa and Mama Love Tokens on dimes front

Papa and Mama Love Tokens on dimes back

To read the complete entry on the Newman Numismatic Portal, see:
Face Milled (https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/dictionarydetail/515882)

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