“I know. Has Tony shown you anything like these?”
“No,” she said. “But he has trained me to notice letters, characters, and ideographs. The printing or engraving on these coins is very similar to the lettering on that package!”
“Yeah, but—”
Norma giggled in semi-hysteria. “Would it be economically just to pay for uncertain merchandise with uncertain coinage?”
“But you—”
Norma sobered. “Somewhere, someone got—temporarily, of course—a Lovepruf Lipstick for his two dinero, here, and hurled the thing back into the machine just as we did that package of mahooleylickum we got. Then in return, we get two dinero and someone, somewhere, is wondering what the legend ‘One Dime’ means.”
“Ow!” groaned Johnny Edwards. “My aching imagination!”
“Indubitably,”2 said Zintal, “these coins are an alloy
