Show to A Century of Money Ufaltingr The centennial of the opening of ho mint at Philadelphia is at hand and told t-old building at 37 and 89 North Seventh street still stands though badly dilapidated dilapidat-ed There the United States first coined money in 1791 the Spanish milled dollar of silver then circulating in the new na 5 fiThTf e l THE ORIGINAL MINT tion being taken as the basis unit Sixty years ago the government abandoned the structure and the smelting furnace in the back room is the only relic of its work there David Rif enhouse the astronomer was the first superintendent The structure struct-ure is apparently solid for they built solidly solid-ly a century ago but the plastering has fallen off and theiplace is otherwise in de o rlLj Jo r 1 |