I had these Whitman coin boards with slots for the coins. I said to Don, It looks to me like we could take these coin boards and use them as molds for casting slugs. Danly was the brains of the operation. And so, sure enough, he learned how to pour these molds for casting slugs, and I supplied the coin boards. We would try to use the slugs for vending machines for soda pop and things like that. Our basic formula was to have our income in currency and our outgo in slugs.

The Snowball by Alice Schroeder