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the conclusion of my investigations with regard to the produce of the Mines, I have discovered that, from the number of Mints which were [sic]temporalily established during the first years of the Revolution, and afterwards suppressed by order of the Viceroy, of which little is known in the Capital, I have been betrayed into some slight inaccuracies, which, from information subsequently received, I am enabled to rectify.

For instance: I have not included in my general Table of Coinage, the Mints of Guanajuato and Sombrerete, not being in possession of any returns from those places, and conceiving, consequently, that, while they remained in the hands of the Insurgents, (by whom the Mints were first established,) no account had been taken of the money coined in each, during the very short time that they were allowed to subsist.

I now find that, in Guanajuato, from December 1812 to May 1813, the Royal Authorities brought Hidalgo’s Mint again into activity, and that 311,125 dollars were struck off on the Government account.

From 1821 to 1825, about two millions of dollars more were coined, (2,170,454 dollars,) which ought, consequently, to be added to the 155,213,012 dollars, at which I have estimated the whole Coinage of New Spain, during the fifteen years immediately subsequent to the Revolution.