COMMITTEE ON STRAITS SETTLEMENTS CURRENCY.

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APPENDIX, No. 19-continued,

TABLE IX.

Operative Department, Royal Mint, E.,

17 November 1909,

STATEMENT received from the ROYAL MINT of Subsidiary Silver Coins struck at the Royal Mint, and at Birmingham, for the Straits Settlements.

1871-1901.

50 Centa

20 Cents.

10 Cente.

5 Cents.

TOTAL

Dollars.

656,000

Dollars.

1,753,100

Dollars.

3,128,800

Dollars, 924,100

Dollars.

8,482,000

1st January 1902 to present date.

50 Cente.

20 Conte.

10 Centa.

5 Conte.

TOTAL

Dollars.

Dollars.

Silver Coia.

68,990

Dollars.

65,750

Achinese Porta.

Arabia

2,800

Australia

5,400

Bali-

Bombay and Malabar Coast

41,320

165,822

British North Borneo

61,840

Burma Porta

16,000

Calcutta

12,558

Celebes

355,150

2 1 1 6 || 11 |

Dollars.

74,000

Dollars.

$21,000

Dollars.

359,000

Dollars.

98,000

• As far as can be ascertained, this was the first occasion on which coins were struck at the Royal Mint for the Straits Settlements.

Dollart.

780,000

69,380

TABLE X.

10,440

ANNUAL AVERAGE MARKET PRICE of SILVER in London since 1870, per Standard Ounce.

Ceylon

17,202

6,800

d.

d.

d.

China

Christmas and Cocos Islands

18,700

1870

1,100

804

1.881

512

1892

1871

Dindinge

60+

1882

51H

1893

3011 351

611,740

Dutch Borneo

1872

601

1883

50,

1804

29

2,500

French India

1873

501

1884

5011

1806

201

657,520

French Indo-China Colony

1874

58

1885

48

1896

304

French Indo-China Protectorate

17,950

1875

5611

1886

451

1897

27+

463,508

4,623

Hong Kong

1878

53

1887

444

1898

1,450,710

167,287

2611

Java

600

1877

1888

424

1699

27

2,244,116

1878

Johor.

52,4

1889

37,177

4211

1000

241

1879

51

1890

474

1001

27,A

Kedah

265,390

Kelantan

1880

521

1891

205,000

Labuan

Madras and Coromandel Coast

15,000

32,421

1,600

Malacca

236,940

Natunas Islands

401,834

TABLE XI.

MONTHLY AVERAGE PRICE of SILVER BULLION and of MEXICAN DOLLARS in the London Market, 1900 and 1901,

Netherlands Archipelago

218,610

Pahang

187,849

Bullion, per Standard Ounce.

Mexican Dollars.

Patani

162,966

292,100

MONTIL.

Penang

4,118

1,780,255

Perak

1,926,193

Philippines

4,798

Portuguese India

79,075

1 1 1

1111

1900.

1901.

1900.

1901.

d.

d.

d.

d.

January

27

29

27

281

Rbio -

1

180,656

February

271

281

274

271

Sarawak

3,318,520

19,780

2,900

March

27

27H

271

27+1

Selangor

721,078

April

271*

2714

271

271

Siam Proper

Siam, West Coast

212,385

203,821

-

May

274

27+

27

27H

3,000

300

June

2711

21+

271

271

Singapore

214,200

July

28

27

271

201

Singora

1,656,417

739,659

15,349

Bumatra

3,100

142,886

August September

281

201

27+1

261

2811

2611

28,

264

Sungei Ujong

376,953

Tringganu.

800

October - November

29,

264

29

2014

201

201

2014

26

United Kingdom

TOTAL

16,792,647

3,090,572

185,335

December

2911

25,

29,

251

Average per Year

281

27

971

26+1

6849.

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APPENDIX:

APPKNLIX, No. 19—continued.

TABLE XII.

AVERAGE Monthly Price of Silver and Mexican Dollars, 1902.

Silver.

Mexican Dollars.

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