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THOUGHTS ON DETECTING COUNTERFEIT COINS BY THEIR SOUND Last week's item on the inventor who detects counterfeit coins by the sound they make brought several comments from readers. -Editor Tom DeLorey writes: Considering the flood of counterfeit British round pound coins, anything that promotes "sound money" is a good thing. Joe Boling writes: In the article on detecting counterfeit coins by sound, one line ends "would allow computer analysis of each coin vended." That is the second time in a week that I have seen a coin inserted into a vending machine being referred to as a coin being vended. Not so - the product that the machine sells is vended, but the money used to buy it is not. I found that a bit jarring, too. The coin may be "deposited" or "tendered", but it's not "vended". -Editor Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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