Minting Technology

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The ridges on the edge of the coin in your hand. They are not ornament. They are an answer to several centuries of fraud.

1. the 6th century BC　India · Punch-Marked Silver 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
2. 359 BC　Macedon 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
3. 330 BC　The Empire's Network of Mints 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
4. 269 BC　The Temple of Moneta 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
5. from 15 BC　Lugdunum (Lyon) 　France
6. the Roman period　Río Tinto (today's province of Huelva) 　Spain
7. 1852　London 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
8. The 1930s　A refinery furnace 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
9. the 1st century BC　A settlement in south-east Britain 　Britain
10. the 2nd–1st centuries BC　The mint of Rome 　Italy
11. 113 BC　The imperial park: the three offices of Shanglin 　China
12. 118 BC　A Han minting site 　China
13. 206–144 BC　The lords' copper mines and casting sites 　China
14. the 4th–3rd centuries BC　A casting workshop 　China
15. the 3rd century BC　The casting works of Rome 　Italy
16. the 3rd century BC　The temple on the Capitoline 　Italy
17. Circa 3rd century BCE　The mint 　India
18. Around the 3rd century BCE　Under a superintendent 　India
19. Around the 3rd century BCE　The Silence of the Texts 　India
20. 3rd century BC　Mint of Antioch 　Greece
21. From 44 BC　Mints of the Colonies 　Greece
22. 146 BC – 3rd century AD　The Provincial Market 　Greece
23. about 286–296　Londinium (London) 　Britain
24. 296　Londinium retaken 　Britain
25. Circa 296 AD　Alexandria Mint 　Greece
26. Circa 296 AD　A market in the eastern Empire 　Greece
27. From 297 BC　Mint of Byzantion 　Greece
28. 312 AD　Mints in the eastern part of the Empire 　Greece
29. 336–323 BC　The Mint of Amphipolis 　Greece
30. the 5th–4th centuries BC　An engraver's workshop 　Italy
31. 6th–4th century BC　Mexico City Mint 　India
32. 6th–4th century BC　Two Continents 　India
33. From 413 BC　The harbor of Syracuse 　Greece
34. 450s–420s BCE　The agorae of the allied cities 　Greece
35. Circa 525–515 BC　The Minting Site 　Greece
36. the 3rd–6th centuries　An office measuring cloth 　China
37. the 6th century BC　Sybaris and Metapontum 　Italy
38. Circa 550 BC (disputed)　In front of the coin hoard pot 　Greece
39. 6th century BC　Striking workbench 　Greece
40. 6th century BC　Mint of Corinth 　Greece
41. the 6th–7th centuries　The Merovingian court 　France
42. the 5th–7th centuries　The island where money vanished 　Britain
43. Second half of the 7th century BC　Border with Lydia 　Greece
44. from the 8th century to the present　The forests and rivers of Germany 　Germany
45. 929　Madinat al-Zahra 　Spain
46. the 9th–10th centuries　The Northern Trade Routes 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
47. the 9th–10th centuries　The West Frankish Kingdom 　France
48. the later 10th century　Mints across England 　Britain
49. the 8th–10th centuries　A provincial casting hut 　China
50. the 9th–10th centuries　Pavia, Lucca, Rome 　Italy
51. 978–1016　An English mint 　Britain
52. from the 11th century　Jaca, at the foot of the Pyrenees 　Spain
53. the 11th century　The mouth of the Douro: Portus and Cale 　Portugal
54. from 1066　An English mint 　Britain
55. 1092　Mint of the Imperial Capital 　Greece
56. the 11th–12th centuries　The caravan routes of the Sahara 　Spain
57. from 1174　The mint of Toledo 　Spain
58. 1247　The London mint 　Britain
59. the earlier 13th century　An English market 　Britain
60. the 10th–13th centuries　Minting towns across the German lands 　Germany
61. the 10th–13th centuries　A ship carrying coins across the sea 　China
62. the 11th–13th centuries　A Song port: the loading pier 　China
63. the 13th century　The Rialto market 　Italy
64. 1252　Genoa and Florence 　Italy
65. 1260–1290　A place where copper coins are melted 　China
66. 1266　Tours, on the Loire 　France
67. From 1284　Aegean port 　Greece
68. 1285 and 1346　Barcelona 　Spain
69. Circa 1329–1330　A blacksmith's workshop 　India
70. 1337–about 1350　The royal mint, Paris in winter 　France
71. the 14th century　The low country, a mint at night 　Netherlands
72. 12th–14th centuries　Rus' principalities 　Kievan Rus'
73. 1425　A market in Hanseong 　South Korea
74. the 15th century　A market of Castile 　Spain
75. the later 15th century　A market of Castile 　Spain
76. the end of the 15th century　A mint of Castile 　Spain
77. the end of the 15th century　The court of Milan 　Italy
78. 14th–15th centuries　The site of transaction 　Russia
79. from 1454　Across Castile 　Spain
80. 1471　The royal palace of Castile 　Spain
81. 1474　Castile 　Spain
82. 1486　Tyrol, the mint at Hall 　Germany
83. 1486　The Hall mint 　Austria
84. 1521–　New Spain 　Mexico
85. 1535 and 1572　The mints of Mexico City and Potosí 　Spain
86. 1535　Spanish Crown 　Mexico
87. 1535　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
88. 1536–　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
89. 1537–1538　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
90. 1537–1538　Mexico City 　Mexico
91. 1544–1551　The London mint 　Britain
92. the 16th century　A mint of the New World 　Spain
93. the 16th century　The mint of Goa 　Portugal
94. the 16th century　The Zecca of Rome 　Italy
95. 16th and 20th Centuries　Emergency Coinage in Mexico 　India
96. 15th–16th centuries　Various places 　Russia
97. 16th century　Mints in Central Europe 　Austria
98. 1553–1640　The mint on the Île de la Cité, Paris 　France
99. 1557　Brabant, a mint 　Netherlands
100. 1565–　Acapulco 　Mexico
101. 1567　A mint in the low country 　Netherlands
102. From 1572　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
103. 1572–　Market 　Mexico
104. 1579　Utrecht 　Netherlands
105. 1580–1640　The mint of Lisbon 　Portugal
106. The 1580s　In the back of the mint 　Turkey
107. from 1586 to the present day　The gold workshop of the mint 　Netherlands
108. 1601–1612　Fushimi and Kyobashi in Edo 　Japan
109. 1619–1623　The changers' counters of the territories 　Germany
110. 1619–1623　Mints springing up everywhere 　Germany
111. 1629–1672　The workshop of the Paris mint 　France
112. 1640　The Paris mint 　France
113. 1640–1672　The Paris mint 　France
114. the 1640s　The mint of Lisbon 　Portugal
115. 1642　England in civil war 　Britain
116. from 1642　The emergency mint at Oxford 　Britain
117. 1649　The Potosí mint 　Spain
118. the 17th century　The Milled Edge 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
119. the 17th century　The British colonies of North America 　United States
120. the 16th–17th centuries　The workshop of a New World mint 　Spain
121. 17th century　A Mughal mint 　India
122. 17th century　The mint's account 　India
123. 1662　The mint in the Tower of London 　Britain
124. from 1662　The mint in the Tower of London 　Britain
125. 1662–the 1690s　A market in London 　Britain
126. 1678　Seven government offices 　Korea
127. 1683–1715　The Paris mint 　France
128. 1689　Versailles and the mint by night 　France
129. 1690　The Imperial Capital's Mint 　Turkey
130. 1696　The mint in the Tower of London 　Britain
131. 1698　Moscow 　Russia
132. 1701–1710　A winter village and the mint 　France
133. 1717　The Barcelona mint 　Spain
134. 1728 and 1730　Madrid 　Spain
135. 1732　The Mexico City mint 　Spain
136. 1732–　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
137. 1732–　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
138. 1732–　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
139. from the middle of the 18th century　The mint of the royal capital, Berlin 　Germany
140. the 18th century　The mint of Lisbon 　Portugal
141. the 18th century　The mint of Rio de Janeiro 　Portugal
142. Late 18th century – 1804　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
143. Late 18th century–1804　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
144. 1756–1763　A mint let out on contract 　Germany
145. 1767–1773　The Potosí mint 　Spain
146. 1782–1800　Edo 　Japan
147. 1787　The Constitution of the United States, Article 1, Section 10 　United States
148. 1797　The Soho Manufactory 　Britain
149. 1806–1810　The court of the Kingdom of Holland 　Netherlands
150. 1810　The road to Zacatecas 　Mexico
151. 1810　Various locations 　Mexico
152. 1810s　Durango 　Mexico
153. 1810s　Chihuahua 　Mexico
154. 1811–1814　Oaxaca 　Mexico
155. 1817–1821　A street corner in London 　Britain
156. 1824–　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
157. 1824–　Throughout Mexico 　Mexico
158. 1825–1893　Various mints 　Mexico
159. 1825–1893　Guanajuato/Zacatecas 　Mexico
160. 1828　Aegina Mint 　Greece
161. From 1828　Aegina Island Mint 　Greece
162. 1833　The Royal Palace of the New Kingdom 　Greece
163. 1835　British India 　India
164. 1844　Main gate of the mint 　Turkey
165. the 18th–19th centuries　A table settling in foreign silver coin 　China
166. 17th-19th centuries　Chinese market 　Mexico
167. 1857　The scales room of the mint 　Germany
168. 1857　A German mint 　Germany
169. 1864–1897　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
170. November 1866　A mint in Hanseong 　Korea
171. April 1867　Hanseong 　Korea
172. 1869–1870　Madrid, the mint 　Spain
173. 1870–1878　The mints of the union's countries 　France
174. 1871 and 1873　The mint of the empire 　Germany
175. 1873　The Philadelphia mint 　United States
176. 1873–1910　Mexico City 　Mexico
177. 1873–1910　Various locations 　Mexico
178. 1875　The striking room of the mint 　Netherlands
179. 1878　Washington, the federal Congress 　United States
180. 1878–1893　The banking streets of the East and the farmland of the West 　United States
181. July 1883　The Jeonhwanguk in Hanseong 　Korea
182. 1890s–　Clandestine workshops 　Korea
183. 1890s–　Tax payment counter 　Korea
184. 1892　The Jeonhwanguk in Incheon 　Korea
185. From 1892　The Mint 　Korea
186. 1892–1904　Jeonhwanguk 　Korea
187. 1893　London 　India
188. 1893　Mints of India 　India
189. 1896　The hall of the Democratic national convention 　United States
190. 1898–1913　Mexico City Mint 　India
191. March 1919　Vienna 　Austria
192. 1921–　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
193. 1921–　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
194. 1951–1958　the neighborhood candy shop 　Japan
195. 1960s–1980s　Various locations 　Russia
196. 1960s–1980s　Moscow 　Russia
197. 2006–present　In the light on the note's face 　South Korea
198. 2021　the Mint 　Japan
199. Present　The 500-Year Circle 　Mexico

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