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Show II SILVER Si HAS FAFTTO TRAVEL San Francisco Banking Authority Au-thority Presents Statement as to Bullion Values. The Anfilo & London-Paris National Bank of San Francisco monthly circular Bays of silver in the Boston News Bureau: Bu-reau: "Apparently all the minis of the; world are at work coining- standard or i subsidiary silver coin and demand for the . metal is growing and the price has been j steadily rising. Already bullion value of J the pure silver in some coins in some j countries is equal to or greater than face value of the coins, and a very slight increase in-crease of bullion value over face value will lead to exporting or melting. "This has led some to suppose that silver sil-ver was remonetizing itself and that without with-out legislation the old ratios of 15 or 16 to oTie of gold would re-establish themselves them-selves throughout the world. Silver has ; a long road to travel yet before that point is reached, as will be seen hy the table following, which shows price per ounce at which bullion value of silver in tiie coin is equal to face value in country coun-try of issue, as fixed by director of the ; mint in United States currency. j "The tahle shows the situation only j roughly, as bullion value of silver usually differs in different countries, and at pres- 1 ent may differ materially: Price at Face value which silver in U. S. Pure silver In coin currency, contents equals face cents. grains, value, cts. United States dollar mo 371.25 129.293 United States half dollar.. 50 173.61 138.241 Canadian dollar 100 333.00 144.144 Philippine peso 50 246.912 97.201 Philippine half peso 25 115.74 103. 6St Mexican peso , 49. S4 377.1395 63.433 Mexican half peso 24.92 154.32 77.512 British shilling 24.33 SO. 7272 144.665 'French franc 19.29 44.2S6 143.713 German mark 23 . SI 77.16 14S.118 Japanese half yen 24.92 124.9992 95.693 Indisn rupee 32.44 165.00 94.371 Standard coins of other countries in Latin Union have same ratio. |