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

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• StampAlarm Posts: 1,668 ✭

  September 19, 2007 6:55AM

  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.

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• lathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭

  September 19, 2007 7:51AM

  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

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• coltgus Posts: 337 ✭

  September 19, 2007 8:10AM

  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.

  I'd rather be lucky than good.

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• bushmaster8 Posts: 5,616 ✭

  September 19, 2007 9:15AM

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

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