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2025-05-18 17:08:59 UTC - HELPFUL
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Coin clipping was a significant problem well before 1656. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/naughty-money-clippers-and-coiners-in-16th-century-englan The ridges in coins required expensive machinery invented by the Royal Mint in the 1660s, which made them hard to counterfeit or clip. https://auronum.co.uk/when-currency-lost-its-edge-the-era-of-coin-clipping-and-its-consequences/ Jews as economic criminals is a well known anti-Semitic falsehood. https://antisemitism.adl.org/greed/
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