A fact from Jean Castaing appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 February 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the Castaing machine(pictured), a seventeenth-century device created by Jean Castaing, was said to be capable of applying edge lettering to 20,000 coins daily?
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