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Show MAY STC? CCiNAGS CF SMALL CCLD CCIN WASHINGTON, May . Tbe two and s half dollar gold piece which has long been a favored coin for watch charma and Christmas-gifts, but not for circulation mnv eooa become obsolete. Secretary MaeVeigh contemplatee asking ask-ing eongraaa for authority to atop its coinage. Even in California where gold cire.o-latee cire.o-latee almost to tbe exclusion of puper money there is a public deposition t" shua 'the little coin, so easily eonfuae'l with dimes and penniee to the Uise of tbe owner, lach year the mints have been coining new ones for tbe C'hrist-maa C'hrist-maa demand but an one seems to want aa eld one, so thev pile up in the tress ury vaults. Quite a saving may be effected if their coinage is abolished. |