The Two Coins

Lee Berman · 13 Aug 2010, 20:22 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:22:33 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Two Coins
Message-ID: <SNT123-W4C3693734430C7EA95A64CF980 at phx.gbl>



>Jack Smith: Brass used in  counterfeit coins seems to make them feel greasy.  At least
>that's what Mark Twain says:
 
>"I told him I had an old slick counterfeit quarter that warn't no good
>because the brass showed through the silver a little, and it wouldn't pass>
>nohow, even if the brass didn't show, because it was so slick it felt
>greasy, and so that would tell on it every time."  --Huckleberry Finn,
>Chapter 4

Thank you Jack!! For so many years I knew I had seen the slick, greasy
fake coin reference from somewhere else and you have found it. That is
definitely IT. Two bits says that's where Wolfe got it from.

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