CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894 — Page 458

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Copy of Latter from Bombay Agent to Mr. Gwyther

aw

With reference to

your

letter of 8th alto, I

Janngay 18940

u Major Scott at the Mint after his return from hanse and he told that he had

me

suggested to

ir David Barbour and Mr. Westland when they

et

in

Bombay

six weeks

ago

the same idea

you my the coinage of a

viz

hich occurred to british dollar for Hongkong

and the Straits

the Bombay Mint. At his suggestion I legraphed to Mr. Westland asking whether that the Indian Mints would be

could

say

epared to do the work if required, and enquiring

but I am yet

hat would be the

seignorage

rnished me with

thout reply. In the meantime Major Scott has an estimate of the seignorage, estimate of the amount le

rnished

red upon my estimate of the

amount likely to

tendered for coinage during the first year

₤3.000.000

200.000 worth l

put down as

Fill

that

my

agri guessed at,

which

worth. I daresay you

estimate is as near ab can

great deal would of course

pend upon whether the Mexican Mints more active & upon the popularity

ould become

the British Dollar in

China and the Straits. This

timate of Ato 23 per $1000 appears to me to be a full