Why Are There Notches On Coins?

I truly didn't know that and it makes perfect sense.  I wish I had some of those gold coins nowadays!

I love useless but interesting information like this and thank you for sharing.  I find tidbits like this are great ice breakers at networking events.  Here is one back. You have seen statues of generals on horses as monuments to a battle.  Sometimes the horse has one leg up and sometimes all four legs are down.  What this means is that the general fought in this battle, if one leg is up he survived, if all four are down, so was he in that battle.  This is useful in my home town of Boston, MA

Fun piece of trivia - and I love having these little pieces of info that no one else knows the answers to - sometimes it actually makes me look smarter than I am!

I love trivia! This information was recently shared on some recent broadcase; your post title caught my attention.

Interesting!  I asked a couple people here at Headquarters, no pun intended, and you should here the reasons they came up with! 

Thanks for the post... I knew that, but had forgot.. Thanks for bringing it up again...

trivia homework for you...  How did the origial numbers come to be and how is their association with the word?

It's also helpful that they left them that way.  My brother is blind, and visually impaired people use the ridges and smooth edges to tell which coin is which. :)

I had no idea that was the reason. So, why in the 40s when even the metal in pennies became valuable because of the war didn't they groove them during that time?

I certainly like Kristin's # 7 comment much better. Thanks for the trivia tidbit.

Margaret

Gary, thanks for this tidbit of information..something  I didn't know...and will forward to my husband. Thanks,