I don't think they stand for anything. Ridges were put around the edges of coins (when coins were made of valuable metals like silver and gold) to prevent people from shaving small amounts from the edges of a lot of coins and melting down the shavings to sell, while passing off the modified coins as still having their face value. Some countries put different patterns of ridges around the edges so that blind people can tell the denomination of the coin.What do the ridges on edge of a quarter stand for?
I think that they are for identification for blind people. This way they can feel by the size and ridges of the coin and help identify the correct coin.
The number of ridges doesn't by itself have any specific significance. We call that type of edge a Reeded edge. It started with the Half-dollar of 1836 in US coinage.
The most use for it is in counterfeit detection and identification of new die varieties of older or more valuable coins. Often counterfeits will have the wrong number of ridges on the reeded edge. Also, older coins were made where the number of reeds (ridges) per edge was not set by precise machining. So new die varieteies were identifed by counting the number of reeds.
Count them and find out. No really, they serve the same purpose I would imagine as those ridges on potato chips.
nothing at all...damn, you have time to count those things???
sorry.......cant help u there.........look it up if u really have to know.
Its so a blind person will know that its a quarter( I think 1 of my teachers told me that)
Ridges were put on coins to people wouldn't shave them down a little to get the silver or gold or copper, for that matter. If you shave down a coin with ridges, it shows.
Nothing at all to do with potato chips, or Saratoga Chips, as they were originally known.
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