Richard J Kinch wrote:

David A. Webb writes:

Isn't it perfectly legal to destroy/mutulate currency as long as you
don't try to put it back into circulation?

Mutilation was an issue only when coins had silver or gold in them.

AFAIK that's the reason for the milled edges on some coins. Sharp cookies
used to shave the outside diameters of gold and silver coins with a sharp
knife. They could create quite a little pile of gold dust for themselves
that way. Milling the edges made the "skinning" obvious, and you could
refuse to accept a coin for that reason.

Jeff


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