Salt Lake Herald | 1890-07-23 | Page 4 | The Silver Dollar

THE SILVER DOLLAR SALT LAKE CITY July 21 hOd To tho Editor of THE HCRALU would be pleased t have you publish in your valuable paper tho number of grains of silver and or copper that will now be used in the silver dollar whether tho dollar is one ounce avolrdu pols or one ounce troy and what are the rela V tlve proportions V between gold and silver V SUB The standard silver dollar contains 412 troy grains and the gold dollar contains 2iJ troy grains The standard for both gold I and silver coins is 900 parts of pure metal L to 100 of alloy The alloy of silver coins is of copper and of gold coins copper or copper cop-per and silver The ratio is I of gold to 16 V of silver