Fwd: "plugged, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/13/2011 08:10 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>This does not leave a whole lot of time between 1857 (the first
>"nickel") and 1884 (the earliest tracked "plugged nickel").

I'll bet the first counterfeiters (alterers) were in action pretty
rapidly, and their products discovered soon thereafter.

Joel

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