Show SO MORE COUNTERFEITING A Great Invention l > y the exSuper intendent of Mint A Philadelphia paper gives the following description of an improvement in coining coin-ing For two months past Colonel A Loudan Snowden Superintendent of the Mint has been working upon an invention to render counterfeiting the United States coinage practically impossible Some weeks ago he made a wooden model of his own with a twice bisected collar which was intended to form raised letters upon the peripheries of all United States coins After this had been tested ho had several steel collars made upon up-on the same pattern and adjusted to the enormous toggled silver coinage press of the Mint For days and weeks Colonel Snowden persevered in experiments that were often most disheartening for ho found it a nearly impossible task to adjust the opening and shutting of the bisected collar to the rapid motion the dies On tho 12th a final experimental ex-perimental test was made and it was a per Heaps of round silver pieces feet success smooth 3R ice and liS glistening IlS dew as talll1ollOv tube at placed in a tall hollow drops were These pieces the outer edge of the press silver dollars With embryo mathematical were exactness all the moving machinery of the dies was adjusted so that would work simultaneously with the open it shutting of the collar After tho and Keel of tho coining moss had made a revolutions the traveling metal claws few adjusted to grasp the first round silver were at full tho machine was put and then piece Tile silver dollars were stumped and HpoNl and to new collar began lettered by the Sir into tho tray beneath like metallic I pour allowed Tho shower of metal was mil continue a without interruption for two min when tho coining press was stopped t3 examined The test iin7lollnrs i dollars wore amI tile of Sirmed all expectations As each one rty held up a new coin I till nvnnrin lonliu party Si Krcsgftho raised letters ap I Hi ill hot from the csgtho I gleaming distirct lNl11Il1 upon the edge I nllnw whntover Between the 1 15 Ilml without coin E of tile new Itgt1ld upon tho eye silver ailpointed stars Ilht1ihu 1 Union dol ioatoly formed as if graven npIIlIlIll a > > m n rile die work upon inhroqoopo mldol n and wIth clear tIlt llolllr was ullloll uf hot II kind of IIny I jilt hlllltllfoliou I not ho imitated by coun coin cnn 1In flow it cm not bo made in a haeaUGO Lrft 1101 the steel iilOUlL ot h I lillY procesI excpt hIt1l1ollurnvinJ or n screw press 111111 ho lifted out of a mould oln lUlIll 001111 their hljur hl0lU60 tile lincs upon without fUlll down The new Ilunlsht up ItllitllIIU tent 111111 stars on their edges Ittlll1l IIIIVO olltit nut ho tnliOn out except by injuring olll1 0111 tuft 1Ultllnth Jl time t nioulda t Itoits l |