Why Do Coins Have Ridges?

Hello everyone, Today's video I talk About white coins have ridges. Back in the day people would clip coins and it was not a lot of silver but after a while they had enough to melt down and sell for a profit. To deter this, The government put the ridges on coins Admit it illegal to who melt your corn's dog for-profit. One Is thing I should mention, Is the I'm not sure of the legality of melting down coins for profit pre ridges, but all I know now is it's illegal now.

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