Is it sanitary to drop a coin into a beverage?

Subject: Is it sanitary to drop a coin into a beverage?

Date: Sun Nov 26 23:51:47 2000
Posted by Mike
Grade level: grad (science) School: No school entered.
City: Ottawa State/Province: Ontario Country: Canada
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 975300707.Gb

Message:


My friend puts a coin in his draft beer for identification purposes.  He 
says he uses coins that only he has recently touched and claims he will not 
get anyone else's germs(viruses, bacteria, etc.) unless the coin has 
recently been in someone else's hands.

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