Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1896 — WORLD’S SILVER COINAGE. [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S SILVER COINAGE.

Reports from the Mints of Twentyone Countries. Here is fresh ammunition for campaign talkers: From official information received by the Treasury Department from twenty-one countries, the coinage of silver during the calendar year 1893 amounted, in the aggregate, to $113,672,290. Of this sum $13,603,200 was recoinage. Deducting this sum from tha total coinage, gives the coinage of silver from new bullion in 1805 as $100,008,000. The country coining the largest amount of silver in 1895 was Mexico, with a coinage of $24,832,350; followed closely by Japan with a coinage of $23,883,500; next comes China, with $8,253,340; Spain, $7,969,500; Great Britain, $5,821,151; United States, $5,698,000; Austro-llun-gary, $5,299,000; Peru, $4,073,000; Russia, $3,554,000; Ecuador, $2,500,000; Germany, $1,826,000. The silver coinage executed by Great Britain during the year for her colonies was: For Canada, $1,158,630; for Hong Kong, $2,200,000; for Straits Settlements, $450,500—a total of $3,808,130. France coined for Indo-China. $6,092,000 In silver and for Morocco $354,600. During 189.> the United States recoined the largest amount of silver, viz., $4,850,000, followed by Austro-Jlungary with a recoinage of $3,318,500: England' $2,100,000; Germany. $1.820.<)00: Russia, $042,500; India, $484,.XX). From Jan. 1 to Aug. 1. 1895, the coinage of silver dollars by the mints of the United States was $8,562,412, while the coinage of silver dollars from 1792 to 1873 aggregated $8,031,23S only. The world's product o£ silver during the calendar year 1895 is estimated to have been $226,000,000. The amount of new bullion used in the coinage so far as known was $100,069,000, and from reports received from twelve countries the amount used in the industrial ayts was $42,000,000, while the exports to the east amounted to $37,500,000. making the total disposition of the world's silver product for 1895 so far as known $179,509,000, which would leave $46,430,000 for coin and use in the arts by the countries from which uo reports have been received.