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Old 01-31-2010, 10:39 AM   #38
jj
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Default Re: "Stemming gold to make ends meet..."

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Originally Posted by Jagfred View Post

[FONT=Tahoma][B] Eventually, coins came to have "edge ridges" so that such practice could be detected.
interesting, thanks...so this is also where the term cutting corners also came from...sounds like this came from a pretty neat website

i have a few of old ridgeless coins (inherited) and i wonder how many of them may have been stemmed....i wonder why they got rid of our multisided coins, i loved playing mini table football with them...much better for finger flicking than the round variety
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