Show BLEMISHES ON THE COIN r The Ingenious Tricks a Smart Enc S llshman Played < < Morgan the English engraver of the standard or buzzard dollar animated doubtless by an ambition similar to that of the youth who fired the Ephesian dome smuggled into his work in two placestheinitial letter of his surname I Although microscopic in size these Ms are plainly discernible the coin even to the naked eye after a careful search An eagleeyed Wall street man recently discovered one pf the letters 1 and started among his acquaintances the following puzzle Find three letter Ms on the standard dollar Two are readily foundone in the word unum and another in America but the third is not so easily found An interview inter-view with Chief Drummond of the United States Secret Service showed that there was four Ms instead of three and the fourth hitherto unnoticed even by Wall street men was pointedout to the reporter Mr Drummon laughed when his attention was called to the matter and said The presence of these extra letters on the standard dollar dol-lar was first brought to my notice by one of my clerks They were of course cut in the die by Morgan The Chief of the Secret Service acknowledged that they had not escaped the attention of the counterfeiter who had placed them on thefalse coins Similar instances of the mutilation of dies are recalled in the case of English and French engravers engrav-ers work Wyon the artiste to the English IMint many years ago placed on the plate of a postage stamp a W of so minute a character that for years thestamp circulated without doubt of its perfection The eventual discovery of this blemish created a sensation in England The objectionable addition to the work was promptly erased and astringent a-stringent law passed against the commission com-mission of a like offence In the reign of Napoleon III the engraver placed the initial letter of his surname on the pjate for a stamp This also was of such mictoscopic dimensions that it escaped detection for a long time The discovery discov-ery of the fact led to the same result as in the English caseNw York Tribune |