On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:46:16 -0500 Sasha Chislenko <sasha1@netcom.com>
writes:
> I wonder how much dirt and bacteria is carried around on
> currency. People sterilize gloves but touche greasy coins
> and bills that passed through hundreds of hands.
>
> Would it make sense to wash the coins and exchange bills more often?
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Sasha Chislenko <http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html>
>
The mints of 11 European countries are presently working night and day to
produce the approximately 50 billion new coins which have been ordered
for the start of the new European currency. There was a brief flurry of
concern when it was pointed out that most of the coins will contain a
toxic element (nickel). But they decided to go ahead with the coins
containing nickel when they realized that most countries have already
been using coins containing nickel for many years. Perhaps the metals in
most coins are germicidal, especially when they react with the acids in
sweat and skin oil. Silver is used in germicidal water filters, and in
earlier times silver was commonly used in coins.
Ron Kean
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