10
DES.
extenses
Without such
a
the
Coin
about
the European portion of Community would not carry them cents to defray the small disbursements which they make personally, but would continue
to
use
small
the endless variety of British and Freign Silver Coins
at present in Circulation
S.
I do not think there would
use
in carrying out
of the
be the slightest the proposal of the master
mint to introduce there
experiment
as
an
a certain amount of Spanish real and double real Silver pieces which
are coined by the
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Spanish Government at their intrinsic value - Millions upon
Millions of Dollars into the Colony every year
passed
me
imported
und
are
Chinese
on in payment of
produce, purchased out of the Colony. The Spanish small Silver Coins
would be treated
as so much
bullion passing like dollars by weight of $10= Jacks 7. 1.7 and could not be kept in circulation as a currency, nor retained in the Colony
My opinion is that the new silver pieces of ten cents should be coined at the mint of less fineness than the Follar for, if made as
proposed by the