What does "Milling" on a coin mean and can you please provide a visual example?

drddm

Thanks.

StampAlarm

Milling Marks are the same thing that reeded edge marks are. Like the edge of a Morgan hitting the field of another one. Something tells ,me though that you are talking like 'hand-milled' ? Some darksiders might be able to pick up on this if they know old British gold.

lathmach

Milling and reeding are interchangeable terms for the grooves in the outer diameter of a coin.
This feature was incorporated to keep people from stealing a little precious metal from each coin they handled by scraping some off the diameter and cheating the next person to get the coin.
This was referred to as "chisiling", and is where the term "chisler" comes from.

Ray

coltgus

Go to the Heritage sight for the Long Beach Signature sale. Search for milling in titles and descriptions. There are 10 examples of coins with milling marks.

bushmaster8

Pretty much interchangeable with "bagmark", at least on coins w/reeded edges.