Definition

• Overtype.  The last design to be struck on an overstruck item where a previous coin or medal had been used as a planchet instead of a proper (blank) planchet. An overtype is easy to identify, though it may be somewhat distorted, in contrast to the undertype which is mashed by the die of the overtype striking.  See overstrike, overstruck.
      

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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