| Show WEIGHT COINS Secret Service Will Run Down Don tho the Sweaters of or Them New York Oct Oot 30 The New Now York flub BUO treasury has hae asked the aid of the Washington secret B bureau in running down those persons who are nr responsible for the tho flood of light weight sliver silver halt and dollar pieces re recently recently discovered In this thin city The Tho method employed by the operators Is unique and In effect It Is similar to the sweating of ot gold old coins once so common with the addition that the sil sll silver sliver ver coins are plated When lightened the tho coins retaining their original ap appearance appearance ore are again placed In circulation tion requiring a trained eye oye and an experienced touch to discover dl cove that they have hare been tampered with After ACler a II bit hR bitof bitor of ot the wear the money undergoes the coins which have been operated upon reveal their lightness at once and as ns a 11 result are ate refused acceptance It Is not permissible for tor tho the government to redeem the tho th coins at nt their taco face value and of course their Intrinsic worth Is much loss losi the for lor which they have passed passel current Electro who make a specialty of ot sil silverware 81 use Ue bar silver for their pur purpose purpose pose floSO In place of ot tho the crudo crude metal It Is explained several smaller firms have hav utilized silver coins ot of the half halt anti and ane dollar denomination and having ob obtained froth them a deposit of ot silver stiver upon the article which Is being plated 1 have used the money again at nt Its face faco value ny fly this t la operation they gain the cost of tho the silver used In plating rid 11 as coin metal Is practically pure they are able oble to put a n finer and more expensive finish upon the tho goods good than If It honest methods were employed with bar metal |
