ok, here's a question you probably get every 6 months

orie

What does Milled in Milled Dollar mean?

Doogy

General Mills used to own a mint and make coins, now they just make cereal.

laurentyvan

Doogy, shame on you.

TwoKopeiki

Milled coins are ones produced by using a machine (earliest was the screw press, I believe), rather than by manually hammering coin blanks between two dies.

theboz11

The Spanish milled dollar was a silver coin with its edged milled or patterned to prevent traders from shaving the edge unnoticed.

koincollect

<< <i>General Mills used to own a mint and make coins, now they just make cereal. >>



Very funny Doogy.

Doogy

sorry guys, couldn't resist

coinkat

And who was Director of the Mint... Captain Crunch?

ColinCMR

from the dictionary on http://www.canadiancoin.com/index.htm

MILLED COIN
- By contrast with a hammered coin, a piece produced by pressure indirectly rather than directly applied, and the edge of which has been rolled or up-set.
MILLED EDGE
- Prior to the use of collar dies the edge design was milled onto the edge of the planchet before the minting process. After the introduction of collar dies milling of edges was introduced to thicken the circumferential border of a planchet so that the border ridge or design will be adequately raised when striking takes place (upsetting).
MILLING
- An incorrect term commonly used as a synonym for graining.
MILLING MACHINE
- A mint machine for applying the reedings to a coin.

Musky1011

Orie my friend, how's it going

Buy anything cool lately

we will have to do lunch again someday

Jim

Doogy

<< <i>And who was Director of the Mint... Captain Crunch? >>




nah....too long a pay grade. General Electric was Captain Crunch's boss, but the latter would never admit it in public.

sumnom

I think of milled coins in contrast not to hammered coins but to cast coins, as in "cash" coins with the square hole in the middle.

coinkat

dcamp78

<< <i>General Mills used to own a mint and make coins, now they just make cereal. >>