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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,230 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just a small general observation; many people confuse the EDGE of a coin with the RIM.

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    reeding=edge(the third side).
    denticles=rim.

  • blitzdudeblitzdude Posts: 5,959 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @keets said:
    reeding=edge(the third side).
    denticles=rim.

    Almost....

    reeding=edge(the third side).
    dentil=rim.

    Thanks

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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,977 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 9, 2018 2:42PM

    On Capped Bust halves I call them Denticles . The rest of them I don't call em anything

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    blitzdude, you're trying to pick a fight with someone who doesn't care. tracing back to the origin of all this will show that.

  • blitzdudeblitzdude Posts: 5,959 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not fighting at all, just using proper terminology. Peace

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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,474 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 9, 2018 6:21PM

    @TommyType said:
    Just to confuse a rather orderly discussion..... :naughty:

    What would you call the design element around the rim of a Standing Liberty Quarter?

    (It's a semi-serious question, in that there could/should be a general term for a "rim enhancing" design element, with denticles being a subset describing "those that look like teeth".)

      **A stylized rope border?**
    

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  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Another utilitarian reason for having them would be so the user could maintain a better grip. Not everyone holds coins like we do :smiley:

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  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm also declaring dentils and denticles identicle. :smiley:

    yes i know "al"

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  • Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭
    edited March 9, 2018 9:12PM

    @Dentuck said:
    The Newman Numismatic Portal has a few instances of dentil from the 1940s and '50s. I haven't searched further back than 1910.

    I also checked the NNP yesterday, and found "dentils" in a 1907 Chapman Bros sale (Wilson, IIRC). Didn't really find anything 19th century tho.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,231 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I always understood the primary reason for the denticles was to make a coin more difficult to counterfeit. Making a false die is especially difficult when there are denticles around the edge that have to be created.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,230 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    I always understood the primary reason for the denticles was to make a coin more difficult to counterfeit. Making a false die is especially difficult when there are denticles around the edge that have to be created.

    "edge" or "rim?"

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,311 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Saw an episode of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" today. One of the questions was about denticles. What are the teeth like marks around the rim of the coin? IIRC it was at the $4000.00 level. The contestant did get the correct answer. But some here may beg to differ on the correct answer that was given. :)

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  • AzurescensAzurescens Posts: 2,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PBRat said:

    Morse code border?

    A true Morse Code border, on the reverse ...

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  • AzurescensAzurescens Posts: 2,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @keets said:
    reeding=edge(the third side).
    denticles=rim.

    Hah!! I remember when I was a kid, some old guy at a coin show gave me a free silver quarter for answering his riddle.

    What two dimensional item can be spun on its third side to become three dimensional?

    ;)

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll take a guess. A 45 RPM record? :)

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