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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2059629, member: 16729&quot;]There has got to be a text resource on these silver One Yen pieces. Filing the rims sounds like PMD, just because that seems like something a &quot;bullion thief&quot; would do, to hide the fact that silver is missing.&nbsp; If the mint did it, I would think that it would appear as &quot;filing marks&quot; that would go all across the face of the coin, or planchet before striking, or in areas of the fields.&nbsp; Kind of like other countries&#039; silver coins of earlier times.&nbsp;&nbsp; These coins were made starting in the Meiji era (1870), right?&nbsp; I don&#039;t think that mint filing (to reduce the weight of a slightly overweight planchet) was done at this time in major mints. I gotta fact-check that, btw...&nbsp; Anyway, I would imagine that size/weight ratio tolerances were tight enough by then to elide any filing by the mint, since filing and weighing was done by hand(!)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen many of these One Yen silver pieces, they are very attractive, and I&#039;ve never noticed rim or filing damage of any kind on XF to MS coins, unless it was dings, graffiti or chopmarks, of course.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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