(The first thing I thought when I saw the title of this post in the sidebar, before even following the link, was “Gettier, schmettier, won't you people taboo ‘know’ already?” But anyway...)

(Gettier does not explain this behavior)

I assume he was going to write that Smith believed that he would get the job himself and had counted the coins in his own pocket but Jones got the job instead and happened to also have ten coins, and then some massive brain fart occurred.