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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mr. Numismatist, post: 26145958, member: 142588&quot;]Take a look at both sides of this token.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1669427[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the obverse you can see an obvious doubled &quot;O&quot; in &quot;MO&quot;, but as you&#039;ll notice the &quot;O&quot; on the reverse does not. But that is not the only difference. Compare the position of each letter on either side and you&#039;ll quickly realize they&#039;re not the same die. If there were hubs involved, why not use the same hub twice to make each die? I also think it makes more sense to hand punch each die separately, since you&#039;re only make a few hundred tokens or less for a customer and never going to use the dies again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a fun article. Scroll down the page and read &quot;How Trade Tokens Were Made&quot;.</p><p><a href="https://tokenguy.tripod.com/tokentales/page10.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://tokenguy.tripod.com/tokentales/page10.htm" rel="nofollow">https://tokenguy.tripod.com/tokentales/page10.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Edit:</p><p>I should note that some token dies were made from hubs, but most 1880&#039;s to 1930&#039;s trade tokens were not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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