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Show THE YEAR'S COINAGE. Leach's Report Shows it the Largest in the History of the Mint. Wa!hisgtox, Nov. 11. Director of the Mint Leach has submitted to the secretary of the treasury the report of the operations of the mints and assay offices for the last fiscal year. The value of gold deposited was 39,625,673, against $49,228,823 in the preceding pre-ceding year. The deposits and purchases of silver aggregated 91,849,663 standard ounces of coining silver, valued at $53,830,134, against $43,563,135 the preceding year, an increase of $40,065,019. The coinage executed exe-cuted at the mints was the largest in the history of the mint, aggregating 119,547,S77 pieces. The mines of the United States yielded during last year precious metals as follows: Gold, commercial vr-.lue, S32.8.j5,000; 6ilver, commercial vaiue, $57,225,000. The produce of gold and siUer in the world dur. ing the last calendar year was: Gold, i-116,-000,000; silver, $131,SS6,000, commercial value. The coinage of gold was $149,113,959; of silver, $131,980,021. The director estimates esti-mates the stock of metalic money in the United States on the 1st cf November at $210,381,115. - |