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[–] dellish@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

He is also the inventor of all the ridges around the edge of coins, because at the time it made coins almost impossible to forge.

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They added ridges so that the circumference couldn't be shaved off and melted into more coins

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Back then, the point of the coins was to represent that they contained a certain weight of metal, without forcing people to weigh them out all the time.