All Mints where a
They
Seignorage.
The
is charged; but still everywhere
are in full work. Convenience of Coined over uncoined treasure is too great not to
preference for it.
is
Ammaud a even at that cost; and although the Chinese still adhere chiefly to the use of uncoined Sycee Silver, still the dollar is recognized want at all the Consular ports of China, and in Some districts of the interior (not to mention Japan) and I can neither see why the Hongkong
dollar should not be coined
as cheaply
as
4
chase of any
alv
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other
Country, nor why the coinage of a powerful state of recognized good faith should command less respect than that of an anarchical state like Mexico, the Mintage in one case being Carried on under the eyes of the Community, with every guarantee for the purity of Standard and exactness of weight of the coin; while on the other the coinage is Carried on in several Mints alike unknown to the Chinese both as to their localities, and the nature of the Control