Collecting by edge varieties

Sylvestius

Anyone every tried collecting coins by their edges? I see a whole variety of different types of edge lettering and a whole plethora of milling styles. Chevron, wide, narrow, diagonal, plain, alternate block of plained and milled, milled with superimposed incuse legends, incuse letter edges, relief letter edges, curved (wire) type edges, flat edges. The funny shaped edges of the euro coinage.

There must be literally dozens and dozens of variants, it'd be a new way of collecting!

Also related to this, are there any copper coins with milled edges? All i ever seem to see are plain ones. I have been looking though!

Sylvestius

The weirdest edge i've ever come across though has to go to the George III Soho Coinage, it looks as if the reverse of the coin was struck on one planchet and the obverse on another and then they were both stuck together!

Oh and i also had great trouble with a 1684 tin farthing at one pioint because the date was on the edge but the edge had corroded so badly it was indechiperable. I was only able to distinguish it from the 1685 by asking the late, great Colin Cooke for assistance.

coinrookie

I have been searching for a rare 1924 rouble , but no luck. I have the common edge piece.

Steve

Aethelred

<< <i>Also related to this, are there any copper coins with milled edges? All i ever seem to see are plain ones. I have been looking though! >>



You need look no further than the British copper issues of 1799-1807. There are copper coins with milled and lettered egdes, I'll try to find a list.

Sylvestius

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<< <i>Also related to this, are there any copper coins with milled edges? All i ever seem to see are plain ones. I have been looking though! >>



You need look no further than the British copper issues of 1799-1807. There are copper coins with milled and lettered egdes, I'll try to find a list. >>




Are you sure about that? They look quite plain to me albeit with that line down the middle but they don't have the ||||||||||| that i'm looking for. (Or maybe all of mine are too worn?)

Preussen

<< <i>Also related to this, are there any copper coins with milled edges? All i ever seem to see are plain ones. I have been looking though! >>




They're not quite copper (Alum-Bronze) but the German 5 & 10 Pfennig coins of 1936-1939 have reeded (|||||||||||) edges. - Preussen

tbirde56

The Chilean pesos of 1942-54 were copper with reeded edges.

gxseries

Russian copper coins are most definately gone over the top. They had them since 1730's. I think I posted some images on coinpeople.com