A while back there was an article in The E-Sylum discussing the technical term for a medal with only text on both sides. I have tried several searches in the E-Sylum archives, but could not locate anything. Any chance that you remember the word, can do some magic with the search engine, or can ask Mr. Johnson, who as I take it knows everything in this regard?

Charley became so familiar with the artists of political medals he could often identify the engraver of unsigned pieces. For example, he attributed nine such pieces to engraver James Bale (active 1824-1851). Q. David Bowers assigned two others to this same artist. These were all typographic pieces (without pictorial devices). These attributions were later verified by Wesley Cox, who made a study of diesinkers' letter punches and their diagnostic shapes (and reported by Russell Rulau).