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 COINAGE

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The value of the deposits of gold bullion, coin, and jewellers' bars at the mints and assay offices of the United States, various years, from 1873 to 18U8, is exhibited in the foUowhig table :

Fiscal Year ending June 30 —

Cii.\R.vcTER OF Gold Deposited

Total

Domestic Bullion

Domestic Coin (Coin- ing Value)

Foreign Bullion

Foreign Coin

(U.S. Coining

Value)

Je\veller.s' Bars, Old Plate, etc.

1873 ISSO 1890 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898

$28,868,569.78 35,821,705.40 30,474,900.25 38,696,951.40 44,371,949.83 53,910,957.02 60,618,239.77 69,881,120.57

$27,116,948.27

209,328.82 655,474.96 2,093,615.46 1,188,258.21 1,670,005.53 1,015,314.39 1,187,682.99

$426,107.44 21,200,997.23

2,691,932.29 15,614,118.19 14,108,435.74

6,572,390.14

9,371,521.03 20,477,370.06

$518,542.14 40,426,559.63

5,298,773.93 12,386,406.81

2,278,614.07

3,227,409.06 13,188,013.86 47,210,077.84

$774,218.25 1,176,505.77 3,542,013..S^ 3,118,421.45 3,213,809.43 8,388,622.01; 2,810,248.66 2,936,943.37

$57,704,385.88 98,835,096.85 42,663,095.26 71,909,513.31 65,161,067.28 68,769,383.81 87,003,337.71

147,693,194.83

Gold and silver coinage operations were conducted during the fiscal year 1898 at the mints at Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New Orleans, and amounted to 44,708,144 pieces, of the value of .^81,120,449.

The coinage of nickel and bronze is confined by law to the mint at Philadelphia, at which institution 72,887,039 pieces, of the value of $1,489,484.11 were manufactured.

Coinage operations were suspended at the mint at New Orleans from January to May, 1898, owing to the exhaustion of the supply of silver bullion at that institution.

Coinage operations at the mint at Carson have been suspended since May, 1893.

The value of the domestic coinage executed by the mints of the United States during the fiscal years 1897 and 1898 and the increase or decrease in the nominal value of the coinage during the year named are shown by the following table :

COINAGE OF THE MINTS OF THE UNITED STATES, BY VALUE, DURING THE FISCAL YEARS 1897 AND 1898, WITH THE INCREASE OR DE- CREASE OF THE SAME DURING THE LATTER YEAR

Classification of Coinage

Fisc.vL Year

Increase, 1898

Decrease, 1S9S

1897

1898

Gold coins Silver dollars. Subsidiary silver coins. Minor coins

Total ....

$71,646,705.00

21.203,701.00

3.124,08.^65

984.509.59

$64,634,865.00

10.002,780.00

6,482.804.00

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$3,358,718.35 504.974.52

$7,011,840.00 11,200,921.00

96,959,001.24

82,609,933.11

3,863,692.87

18,212,761.00

The standard silver dollars for 1808 embraced in the above table (10,002,780) were coined from the balance of silver bullion on hand, pur- chased under the act of July 14, 1890, and contained 8,590,139.05 standard ounces of silver, costing §6,928,821.41.