Show SOME information ON SILVER COINAGE the united states mint is a free public utility owned by y the public and the silver producers are sonic some of tile the pub says the silver bullion bulletin congress authorized the circulation of a weight of sil ver r bullion in the commercial world to be the equal in weight with th the spanish dollar and to contain grains of pure silver ver plus an alloy rile ine mint was established for the manufacturing of the congressional weight called the standard silver dollar A cybol or mint brand was authorized to be stamped upon the e congressional ress ional silver weight tile the mint trademark trade mark guar altees becs the quality and the quantity of the silver weight authorized zed by congress all the ahe knowledge of assaying in tile the early days davs of the mint avas if orl by oil sa s1 mems means so widely cpr spread e ad as now in the early days the republic public there were fewer technical veople people from whom vh information tion could be derived as to the quality and the quantity ty of tile the weights of silver bullion coined or un coined th the mint t trade trademark mark was the mark that protected I 1 the public ingress congress controls the trademark trade mark that is placed on grains of silver bullion the trademark trade mark that is stamped on silver bullion by the mint machine in the commercial world most merchandise is sold by the avoirdupois weight system sixteen ounces or b grains to the pound an ounce cont contains tin grains rains silver bullion is sold in export transactions by the troy weight system twelve ounces or grains to the pound an ounce contains grains in financial and commercial transactions silver bullion is sold by the mint weight system congress and the united states statutes declare grains of pure silver shall weigh one dollar peculiarities of chinese coinage the coinage or stamping mark or symbol on silver bullion is a subject of some interest in many cities of china in china many cities issue local stamped disks of silver bullion each city has its local mint mark or brand and the brand mark of one city is not received in cash transactions in another city the local mint mark of pekin is not good in shanghai shanghai dollars will not pass in hong kong as the canton merchant refuses the hong kong brand you are forever rushing to the coin or money dealers to change your coins for the local brand the money changer charges a fee for the exchange of the brands the unit is one dollar you can change the dollar into smaller weights and have or in small change if you purchase some article that you can pay for with the small change weights the merchant will take the small change in payment 4 if you purchase an article priced or the chinese merchant will not take the small weights in payment it would mean a loss in weight like a grocer aricer cutting cheese the plus or minus weight due to the imperfect t guessing ati essing of the brass smith is made good a by giving the brass weight with the square hole or the copper cent either to or by the purchaser as the case may be local chinese merchants seldom possess enough of small weib weights aits what silver the local chinese shopkeeper had in the cash drawer were coins brought into the local deal district in the natural course of trade most po popular p ular mint brand for silver bullion the most popular piece of silver bullion circulating rl in the commercial world is grains of silver known as th the e maria theresa thalar this mint brand has a wider circulation and a more interesting history than any other thaler this piece of silver bullion has been minted in austria for one hundred and twenty five years minted for one hundred and twenty five years without a change of design and all coins bear tile the same mint date 1780 by a law passed in august 1892 it was ordained that this piece of silver bullion should to bear as at first stamped by the mint the portrait of the empress of glorious memory and the original date 1780 the principal markets in which silver bullion with this popular mint brand is sold are at trieste zanzibar masso alexander and tripoli this mint brand was cincu circulated wan in great amounts during the abyssinian war in in 1867 and in the ashanti country in 1873 it is tile the only current silver european coin coin in abyssinia the british troops were ain unable durin the war in abyssinia 6 with the london mint brand silver to cir circulate culat e office was obliged to have recourse to the british war 11 the mint of austria for the coinage 11 1 1 of this pop popular ular 43 grains of silver bullion this mint mark on a disk of sil silver ver is the only coin coin used e id and commercial trails transactions actions along the west in all trading and borneo morocco egypt coast 0 a st of 1 africa africa |