darkside/lightside?

olmanjon · February 24, 2007 9:00AM

as a newbie I have to ask this question. I keep seeing references to lightside and darkside coins. Are lightside coins American and darkside coins all foreign?

trozau · February 24, 2007 9:04AM

exactamundo! grayside would be Canadian.

olmanjon · February 24, 2007 9:43AM

thank you. Hate to come across as dumb, but these are new terms to me and I have been collecting coins since 1965.

olmanjon · February 24, 2007 9:43AM

that was 1956 not 1965

trozau · February 24, 2007 10:21AM

to the forums!

oldshep · February 24, 2007 10:36AM

Welcome John, I hope you enjoy the forums as much as we do.

Shep

1960NYGiants · February 24, 2007 10:42AM

I collect greyside! Stay awhile lots of neat stuff here.

Oh, and one more term you'll here is farside - tokens and medals.

JZrarities · February 24, 2007 1:29PM

WELCOME to the Darkside

bidask · February 24, 2007 1:48PM

Yes, welcome aboard!

IstilllikeZARcoins · February 24, 2007 6:08PM

to the Darkside......

theboz11 · February 24, 2007 6:45PM

to the forum. I am currently a farside collector

Stork · February 24, 2007 9:03PM

Some might argue that darkside refers to foreign, in which case for those who live outside the US, the US coins are part of the darkside.

I used to like thinking that liteside (my preferred spelling

) does refer to the US alone given the overall history and design of the coins. But I've been developing a little more appreciation for the US coins of late. (Don't tell anyone, but I've recently started a Dansco 7070).

Really though, I mostly have one foot in the darkside and one foot in the farside--maybe it's just my left elbow that's gone liteside on me.

AuldFartte · February 25, 2007 12:53AM

Tokens and Medals are the Farside

darkside/lightside?

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