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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3350571, member: 39"]You will know the Italian 500 lire coin that has the <a href="https://numismatica-italiana.lamoneta.it/moneta/W-ITL/33" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismatica-italiana.lamoneta.it/moneta/W-ITL/33" rel="nofollow">value "500"</a> in Braille at the top. Now whether that counts as a code, I don't know (and actually the dots on that coins were too small to be "readable" by blind people), but AFAIK it was the first coin with Braille.</p><p><br /></p><p>Germany usually uses mintmarks on the coins, but sometimes the government decides to not have them on this or that collector coin. However, they will need or want some means of differentiation, for QC purposes. So various "tricks" have been used, <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedenkmünzen_der_Bundesrepublik_Deutschland#cite_note-ref-2-97" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedenkmünzen_der_Bundesrepublik_Deutschland#cite_note-ref-2-97" rel="nofollow">see here</a>, comments 2, 3, 7 and 9.</p><p><br /></p><p>€10 2006 FIFA World Cup: The slogan ("DIE WELT ZU GAST BEI FREUNDEN") was used as the edge inscription; it contains five E's. Usually the three horizontal bars of that character have the same width or length. Now a middle bar of an E that is shorter than the top and bottom bar will indicate the mint: First "E" > Berlin, second "E" > Munich, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>€10 2009 IAAF Athletics Championship: Here a <a href="https://forum.silber.de/viewtopic.php?t=1255" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forum.silber.de/viewtopic.php?t=1255" rel="nofollow">morse code</a> was added on the edge, with dots and dashes indicating the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>2010 Alpine World Ski Championship (in 2011): It gets even trickier, but you need a magnifying glass for this. If you look at what the athlete wears, there is a certain pattern that <a href="http://www.honscha.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/codierung-10-euro-ski-wm-2011-garmisch-partenkirchen.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.honscha.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/codierung-10-euro-ski-wm-2011-garmisch-partenkirchen.jpg" rel="nofollow">differs slightly</a> depending on where the coin was minted.</p><p><br /></p><p>2011 Women's World Cup: Here it is the edge inscription again; the motto ("DIE ZUKUNFT DES FUSSBALLS IST WEIBLICH") has five S. All characters are sans-serif letters, but one S will have serifs. Is it the first one? Then the coin is from Berlin, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3350571, member: 39"]You will know the Italian 500 lire coin that has the [url=https://numismatica-italiana.lamoneta.it/moneta/W-ITL/33]value "500"[/url] in Braille at the top. Now whether that counts as a code, I don't know (and actually the dots on that coins were too small to be "readable" by blind people), but AFAIK it was the first coin with Braille. Germany usually uses mintmarks on the coins, but sometimes the government decides to not have them on this or that collector coin. However, they will need or want some means of differentiation, for QC purposes. So various "tricks" have been used, [url=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedenkmünzen_der_Bundesrepublik_Deutschland#cite_note-ref-2-97]see here[/url], comments 2, 3, 7 and 9. €10 2006 FIFA World Cup: The slogan ("DIE WELT ZU GAST BEI FREUNDEN") was used as the edge inscription; it contains five E's. Usually the three horizontal bars of that character have the same width or length. Now a middle bar of an E that is shorter than the top and bottom bar will indicate the mint: First "E" > Berlin, second "E" > Munich, etc. €10 2009 IAAF Athletics Championship: Here a [url=https://forum.silber.de/viewtopic.php?t=1255]morse code[/url] was added on the edge, with dots and dashes indicating the mint. 2010 Alpine World Ski Championship (in 2011): It gets even trickier, but you need a magnifying glass for this. If you look at what the athlete wears, there is a certain pattern that [url=http://www.honscha.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/codierung-10-euro-ski-wm-2011-garmisch-partenkirchen.jpg]differs slightly[/url] depending on where the coin was minted. 2011 Women's World Cup: Here it is the edge inscription again; the motto ("DIE ZUKUNFT DES FUSSBALLS IST WEIBLICH") has five S. All characters are sans-serif letters, but one S will have serifs. Is it the first one? Then the coin is from Berlin, etc. Christian[/QUOTE]
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