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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bluegill, post: 253678, member: 1748&quot;]I have quite a few world coins that were minted with holes in the middle. This morning I was thinking about it, and I realized that I don’t know why they are made that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>One obvious possibility is that it’s a good way to have a large diameter coin but use less metal, making it less expensive. But I don’t know if that is a factor, or if it is the primary one.</p><p><br /></p><p>It also occurred to me that it may make a coin more difficult to counterfeit. Or that perhaps someone liked the idea of carrying all their pocket change on a string.</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course there are all sorts of funny reasons I came up with: So a coin would sink faster in a wishing well, or to make it whistle the national anthem if you throw it across the Potomac River…</p><p><br /></p><p>So, can anyone tell me the stated reasons why some types of coins are minted with holes? And, perhaps related, why some coins are bi-metallic?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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