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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 168525, member: 4552&quot;]More interesting stories. Therer should be a place where factual information such as this stays in one place. This post will slowly vanish and new people will not have the advantage of learning something about the edges of coins. I never knew this one. </p><p>Now as to why the edges are like they are I don&#039;t see how anything like reeding, writting, etc could stop anyone from clipping off pieces of material to make thier own coins. Even that appears to be rather a waste of time unless the intent is to&nbsp; produce couterfiets. Phony coin around here were made for a long time in factories that normally produced washers. It took very little to produce a blank that would work in vending machines, pay telephones and especially in parking meters. That was some time ago and I&#039;m not saying it was me but lets just say I used to know of thier usage. Clipping off edges of Silver coins used to be a constant thing with certain individuals and they would still be able to dump them in a banks coin counter. So what was the real advantage to playing around with ribs, reeds, writting, etc. since it sure didn&#039;t stop anyone I knew.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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