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Show WHAT FOREIGN COIN IS WORTH. The (iohl ltotitile ot Kussla for the First Time XitcludtMl. Washixoton, Dee. 31. The director of the mint lias estimated and the seerelary of the treasury proclaimed the values of all foreign coins to be followed in estimating the values offoreign merchandise exported to the United States after .limitary 1, ItS'.W. The following coins have been changed iu value to tlie figures indicated: The tlorin of Austria-Hungary, .311; boliviano bo-liviano of Bolivia, .O'.H; the peso of the Central American states, .O'Jl ; the Shanghai tael of t'hinn, .f l.O-.'l ; the ilaikwan tael of China, 1.13T; i the peso of Colombia, . tV. 11 ; the ui'rc of Keuador, .H'.'I; rupee of India, j the yen of Japan, .74o; the dollar of Mexico,'.'!."); Mex-ico,'.'!."); the sol of l'cni, ..MM ; tlie rouble of Kusbiu, .!."i3; the rouble' of Kussia (gold), .7T:i: niahbub of Tripoli, .IU3; bolivia of Venezuela, . I'lS. For the first time the director of the mint 'has estimated tlie value of the gold rouble of l!u-,-ia, and our cousins iu Ktia;ia have In cu instructed to certify hereafter the depreciation de-preciation of paper money which ia the practical prac-tical currency of Itiissia, from the gold standard, instead of from the. value of the silver roubles, as heretofore. |