Show WHY COINS ARE LIGHT WEIGHT Secret service men captured three of ofa ofa a gang of counterfeiters in San Fran Francisco Francisco cisco Saturday and also dIscovered one of the finest plants for makIng bogus coins In the country the dies being of I especially fine workmanship There are other ways of tampering with the money of the government It has been discovered that small quantities of I gold and silver siler can be bc removed from coins by immersing them in acId sol solvents vents An electric current is turned on while the pieces of money are in the bath and If the electric power and the strength of the acids are regulated ac according according cording to the weight of coIns treated the metal Is sweated off the surface so smoothly that they are not changed in appearance Secret service e men In various parts of the country are busy just now looking locking up the people who are strippIng the coins so it will not be safe to engage in the business Why some coins are light weight is no longer longera a mystery I |