Single-sided Woodies

Go back to the beginning and read again. They mostly did not go away except in teh area of the date.

 

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Ahhh...I see that now. Thanks.

 

You sort of read me right. The obverse looks very much like a true woodie to me. With most pictures, I think that would pass as a single sided woodie. However, the OP took some real nice pictures. If you look closely at the "I" in AMERICA, you will see a line coming out and continuing through the "T" in CENT, then through the "E in ONE and even out the top. I can see a couple other less defined lines (i.e. the first "T" in STATES and the "D" in UNITED). All are the same direction as the lines on the obverse. I suppose this could all be a coincidence, but I don't think so.

Now, if you can have a coin with so little on one side, why not none on one side? I will grant you that the odds are slim, but I do not think they are nil.

 

I assume that you saw the article Mike Diamond wrote in the latest Coin World (12-27-10 pg. #90). It seems that we are not the only ones having problems understanding all there is about these coins and more specifically the later one sided woodies. If I am reading him correctly, he believes even these are most like also improper alloy mixes.

BTW, I know I am stretching it, but that 1948 is pretty much a one sided woodie at least in some ways.

 

Does mine qualify as single sided? I just found it today roll searching for coppers.

 

Before today, I would have said no. However, after reading Mike's article, that seems to fit.