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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3642621, member: 101855&quot;]The early copper coins had edge lettering until George Washington took advantage of a law that allowed him to lower the weight of the half cents and large cents in late December 1795. The mint tired to a few edge devices for the copper pieces, but they were too thin. The lighter weight coins with lettered or gripped edges are quite rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>The early half dollars and silver dollars had lettered edges. This was true for the half dollars until the reeded edge half dollars were introduced in 1836. Unless you had a segmented collar, which was used on the St. Gaudens gold coins, the only edge device you could have with the coins that was struck in collars was a reeded edge. Othewise the first coin you struck would be permanently attached to the collar.</p><p><br /></p><p>The early half dimes, dimes and quarters plus all of the early gold coins had reeded edges. All of those coins were too thin for lettering.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the disadvantaging to slabbing is that you can&#039;t enjoy those features of the coins any more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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