Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1879 — Coinage. [ARTICLE]

Coinage.

The annual report of the Director of the Mint will show that during the fiscal year just ended there were coined, in gold, of double eagles, $37,234,340; of eagles, $1,031,440; of half-eagles, $1,442,130; of quarter-eagles, $1,166,800; of three dollars, $109,182; and of dollars, $3,020. . The silver coinage shows the following result: Dollars, $27,227,500; halfdollars, $225; quarter-dollars, Sll2 50; dimes, $45. Prior to the beginning of the last fiscal yen there had been a total coinage of silver dollars of only $16,619,338. During the last fiscal year alone, therefore, there weie coined of silver dollars some 10,000,000 more than had been coined in the entire history of the Government to that time. The total number of silver dollars coined and in circulation July 1 last was $43,846,888. It will be seen that almost the entire time of the mint was devoted to the coinage of the standard silver dollars, and of dimes there were coined but $45 during the year, and of quarter-dollar piecas but $112.50. The total result of the operations of the mint for tbe last fiscal year was as follows: Goli), $40,986,912; silver, $27,227,882.50; minor, $97,798. Total $68,512,592.50.