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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 1568173, member: 6229&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman">There are two main reasons for reeding on a coin&#039;s edge.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">1. Before reeding, unscrupulous people would scrape or file flakes off the edges of copper, gold and silver coins. Reeding prevents this. Eight different varieties of reeding are incorporated. Three of these utilize the full width of the edge (coin&#039;s thickness); straight lines, left-slanted lines and right-slanted lines. Three occupy only the very center of the coin edge&#039;s width; again, straight lines, left-slanted and right-slanted. The other two are a herringbone design; one facing left and one facing right, full width.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">2. To make it harder for counterfeiters three varieties of <i>security reeding</i> were improvised using solid blocks and straight lines.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">You, a numismatist, should know what reedings are on the edge of the type or variety of coin/s you collect, so you can protect yourself from acquiring a counterfeit or fake coin.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">NOTE 1: There is another edge factor to become familiar with; lettered. Do the coins you collect have edge lettering? There are five things you should know. What is the message? Is it repetitive? Are the letters raised or incuse?</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Are devices like dots, stars, hyphens, rosettes, or some other symbol used to separate the words or phrases? Does the wording face toward the obverse of the coin, the reverse of the coin or do they alternately face opposite directions?</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">NOTE 1.a: 1992 Olympic silver dollars minted at Denver have a lettered edge. It reads XXV OLYMPICS and is impressed four times, <i>alternately inverted</i>, on a <b>reeded background</b>!</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">NOTE 1.b: West Point minted 173,224 uncirculated versions of the 1993 &quot;Bill of Rights&quot; silver half dollars. For some reason 9,656 of these were secretly edge-stamped with a serial number and the initials of two nonprofit organizations (the Madison Foundation and the American Numismatic Association). The obverse of the coin depicts James Madison writing the Bill of Rights</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">NOTE 2: Some slabbing companies now have (or soon will have) slabs that not only reveal the obverse and reverse of a coin, but will also let you see the edge.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Clinker</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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