Show BIG PROFITS ON PENNIES government makes money on them hard to the gold is coined in philadelphia and sail francisco not enough of it comes into the mint at new orleans to make the coinage of it there worth while all three mints make every denomina-tion of silver pieces the minor coins of base metal cents and nickels are all minted ia philadelphia where near-ly or hundred thousand pennies are turned out annually says the new york world cents being of small value are care-lessly handled and are lost in eccli great numbers that the treasury has to work hard to maintain the supply the profit to the government on their manufacture is large however inas-much as the blanks for them are pur-chased for one dollar per one from a firm in connecticut that pro-duces them by contract blanks for nickels are obtained in alie same way costing uncle sam only a cent and a half apiece gold piece are the only coins of the united states which arc worth their face value intrinsically A double eagle contains twenty nine dollars worth of gold without counting the one tenth part of copper |