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minus-squaredellish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·8 hours agoHe is also the inventor of all the ridges around the edge of coins, because at the time it made coins almost impossible to forge.
minus-squareTrex202@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 hours agoThey added ridges so that the circumference couldn’t be shaved off and melted into more coins
minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 hours agoBack then, the point of the coins was to represent that they contained a certain weight of metal, without forcing people to weigh them out all the time.
He is also the inventor of all the ridges around the edge of coins, because at the time it made coins almost impossible to forge.
They added ridges so that the circumference couldn’t be shaved off and melted into more coins
Back then, the point of the coins was to represent that they contained a certain weight of metal, without forcing people to weigh them out all the time.