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Show Aiummjnm .money. Financiers are discussing the advisa-oility advisa-oility of the question of replacing thfl material of the bank liotes and bonds with Alnminium, which has already served its purpose in the manufacture oj visiting cards and postal cards. It is stated that coins might be made of the new metal, these coins to be worthlesi 6xcept so far as the guarantee of tht bonk is concerned in placing a value on them. Henry Bessemer, the great E-g tish steel manufacturer, is warmly espousing es-pousing the idea aud recommends th making of such bonds, which, in th shape of a coin, are exceedingly light fireproof and difficult to melt, so thai they are free from all the disadvantages possessed by paper money. Bessemei says that he has already perfected a process rvhich prevents counterfeiting such coins, making it more difficult to counterfeit than paper money, for photo lithography has made it easy to imitet the most skillful design, and the only safeguard is the secret process of mak lug $e paper, Si louis Pg$t-Di8xetcfc |