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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1007450, member: 39&quot;]Right, edge lettering and milled edges were security features. And to some extent they still are. For example, the €2 and £1 coins have a combination of both: a milled edge with incuse characters. Except that there are lots of fake £1 coins in circulation in the UK. Now if people actually inspected the edges very thoroughly, they might detect &quot;bad&quot; edge lettering, either because the font is wrong or because the motto does not match the year of issue ...</p><p><br /></p><p>The German €2 coins (as well as their 5 DM predecessors) have a &quot;hidden&quot; feature in the edge lettering which allows you to check which mint made a piece. If the easily visible mintmark and that feature do not match, the coin is fishy. Wait, by now even the counterfeiters will know about this. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The Swiss 5 Fr coin for example has raised edge lettering. And as far as I know, that is actually difficult to counterfeit. But of course all those features do not really help if people do not check them carefully. And frankly, in everday life, who does?</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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