Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — Punched and Filled Coins. [ARTICLE]

Punched and Filled Coins.

One of the most common methods of debasing coin is to punch out pieces of silver and fill the hole with tin foil. When the filling is neatly done it is not difficult to pass such mutilated pieces on the unwary. Judge Lowell, of the United States Circuit Court, in a Boston case has held the punching and filling to l>e an act of counterfeiting, and an attempt to pass a coin thus punched and filled to be an attempt to pass counterfeit money. The great mass of mutilated silver has been driven out of circulation by the refusal of ’the people to touch the stuff. It will surprise most

people to learn that they render themselves liable to severe penalties “shoving” this specific kind of “queer,” and, asßradstreefs justly puts it, “Judge Lowell’s decision should, through wide publication, be a timely warning.' 4 v