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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 825628, member: 15929&quot;]Reeding is the little verticle lines on the edges of dimes, quarters, halves and dollars.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Rim is the upturned or raised edge of the coin. All US coins have raised rims which serve to protect the design and facilitate stacking.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Once blanks are punched they get heated in an annealing oven and then sent through an upsetting mill. The upsetting mill rolls the coin through an area that gets smaller in diameter than the blank. This kinda squishes the edges up creating a rim. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Blanks come in two types. </p><p>Type 1 which has not been through the upsetting mill</p><p>Type 2 which has been through the upsetting mill and has a rim (raised edges).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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