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hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoBi-metallic design is mainly used to make the coins harder to counterfeit. Mainly, to make it more expensive to counterfeit than the coin’s value
Comment on What's it like living in 2?
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoBi-metallic design is mainly used to make the coins harder to counterfeit. Mainly, to make it more expensive to counterfeit than the coin’s value
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
To elaborate, it’s really easy to forge “regular” coins and really attractive to forge high value coins.
For example, the 1 British Pound coin was, before the redesign, widely forged:
(Note for any languages that use the comma as a decimal separator: 1,553 million is referring to 1.5 billion)