How Newton thwarted the coin clippers.
"Complete by the middle of 1698, the ‘re-coinage’ stopped clippers in their tracks. Perfectly round machine-made coins with milled edges made it impossible to scrape off even the minutest piece of silver without being detected."
perthmint.com/news/collector/coin-collecting/how-isaac-newton-helped-shape-our-coins/
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