(urth) The Two Coins

[Lee Berman]

>Jack Smith: Brass used in  counterfeit coins seems to make them feel greasy.  At least
>that's what Mark Twain says:
 
>"I told him I had an old slick counterfeit quarter that warn't no good
>because the brass showed through the silver a little, and it wouldn't pass>
>nohow, even if the brass didn't show, because it was so slick it felt
>greasy, and so that would tell on it every time."  --Huckleberry Finn,
>Chapter 4

Thank you Jack!! For so many years I knew I had seen the slick, greasy
fake coin reference from somewhere else and you have found it. That is
definitely IT. Two bits says that's where Wolfe got it from.