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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 843589, member: 112"]Marshall the commonly used term for what you are talking about is over-strike. That is when a coin or token of a different country, or perhaps just an earlier date from the same country, is used as the planchet for a new coin. The new coin is struck, but sometimes varying degrees of the design elements of the old coin can still be seen on the new coin. The practice of over-striking older coins was quite common in many European and South American countries. It went on for centuries. But as a general rule it didn't happen much anywhere past the early 1800's. There are exceptions of course. But by then it became more common to just counter-mark the older coins instead of restriking them with new dies. As I mentioned in the other thread, it was only done in the early years of the US Mint when the mint could not get planchets or metal to make planchets. I used the date 1800 in the other thread, but as Coinman points out it happened as late as 1804. But it never happened again after that, not at the US Mint anyway. I can see where some might use the term under-type instead of over-strike or over-struck, but I must admit your use of the word is the first time I have ever run across it.[/QUOTE]