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Posted 07/31/2011 08:51 am
As for those silver dollars, maybe that is a way of "securing" those many other US dollars that China has invested in so far. ;) Seriously, I wonder whether they use "hidden" features as mintmarks, or actually none at all. As I mentioned, on German coins you usually have an obvious mintmark (a letter), but sometimes it is just a slightly altered character in the edge inscription. They used to do that with "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" (the first words of the national anthem, edge inscription on several coins from this country) where one of the five E's would have a longer middle line than the others.
It got really tricky with the coins issued in 2010 for this year's FIS Ski World Cup. Here the edge inscription was "Festspiele I'm Schnee", and first the collectors thought that once again the five E's could play a role. Turned out that no, it is the sweater (or whatever the guy is wearing) that makes the difference: They used five different MicroGlyph "patterns" or codes to make the identification of the mint possible for quality control purposes. http://www.muenzangebote.de/wp-cont...odierung.jpg The idea behind this is that collectors who would usually buy "all mintmarks" of a coin would have to buy only one ...
Christian
It got really tricky with the coins issued in 2010 for this year's FIS Ski World Cup. Here the edge inscription was "Festspiele I'm Schnee", and first the collectors thought that once again the five E's could play a role. Turned out that no, it is the sweater (or whatever the guy is wearing) that makes the difference: They used five different MicroGlyph "patterns" or codes to make the identification of the mint possible for quality control purposes. http://www.muenzangebote.de/wp-cont...odierung.jpg The idea behind this is that collectors who would usually buy "all mintmarks" of a coin would have to buy only one ...
Christian
Edited by chrisild
07/31/2011 08:52 am
07/31/2011 08:52 am
