318
308
also two hundred to be melted down and
cast into a bar.
Cash silver you so selected is divided into four parts, one part is assayed by the assayer of the Mint, one part is sent for assay to the Royal Mint, London, another part is sent to the Mint of the United States whilst the
remaining part is kept at the Treasury,
Yen
The two hundred Silver
down, and whilst molten a
are melted
dip away
piece is taken out, and this piece is
divided into four parts and assayed.
The precautions taken to insure
accuracy
in
the weight of the Silver
Yen are as follow:-
The blanks for this coin after being
cut out in the Rolling Department are delivered to the Weighing Department where they are each weighed singly by
automatic balances checked by hand weighers. By this operation they are divided into three classes, viz:-
Heavy Blanks
Light
Blanks of correct weight.
The heavy blanks are sent to a machine by which thin parings are removed from
edges and thus weights reduced. The pared blanks are then weighed again
as above.
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