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...hovel alongside some hundred others. She changes her name to Cherie, becomes all that the name implies. So many men of so many nationalities pass through her arms that she only thinks of them, like hurdling sheep, to keep insomnia away. The money in the hollow bed-leg rises coin by coin...
...variety, can not be identified by the absence of any date. All genuine 25-cent pieces printed since 1915 were poorly engraved so that the dates tend to rub off easily. This defect is to be remedied, it was learned, by the issuance of a new model of the coin in the near future by the United States treasury...
...present spurious coins are of such perfect impressions that identification by the design is impossible for the layman. Due to lead content, however, their color tends to be darker than that of the true tokens and they can be cut more easily with a pen-knife. Anyone attempting to pass a counterfeit coin is liable to immediate arrest...
...Just Like Gold in appearance, or almost, is Rumania's new metallic currency. Actually an alloy of small value (composition secret) it will, King Carol hopes, restore somewhat the Rumanian people's sadly shaken confidence in the coin of his realm...
...very important collection of Central & South American stamps, belongs to the Society of Philatelic Americans and to the Collectors Club, of which New Jersey's onetime Senator Frelinghuysen and Pianomaker Theodore Steinway are also members. Of the estimated 3,000,000 U. S. stamp collectors, Scott Stamp & Coin Co. guesses that perhaps a maximum of 500.000 are adult, potential Roosevelt boosters...