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To: monkeyshine
...people were known to shave a little off their coins....

That’s why modern coins of precious metals have a reeded edge. Shaving can be easily detected.

21 posted on 05/22/2023 3:51:13 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

Yes indeed. But some of the generic rounds and bars do not have that serrated (reeded) edge.


34 posted on 05/22/2023 4:53:43 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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