Show Silver Verelnlhalers to Be Demonetized WASHINGTON Jan 4Director of tho Mint Leech speakingof the arrangement said to be completed between Germany and l AustriaHungary to demonetize the silver coins known as vereintbalers said All the Austrian union thalers are now in Germany and are considered national coins in that empire In fact all verein the thalers are now in Germany and amount is variously estimated at from 400000000 to 5COOuO000 marks or about 100000000 The Austrian vereinthalers which it is proposed to melt down are embraced em-braced in this amount They are variously estimated at from 18000000 to 23000000 From the dispatch it would seem as i AustriaHungary had decided to buy those coins and melt them into bars for the reason I rea-son that silver forms are quoted below their value on change |