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Clipped silver coins helped prompt England’s recoinage
By the late seventeenth century, older English silver coins had lost metal through clipped edges. Machine-struck coins had decorated edges to deter clipping, but counterfeit versions created another problem. The Great Recoinage of 1696 attempted to replace the damaged silver currency.
A coin’s edge was part of the struggle over its value.
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