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Show Old Coins Discovered. Worklngmen In demolishing tho old smelter house of tho flrat United Stntcs mint, on Seventh street, Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, have uncovered a number of relics of the early days of tho republic. repub-lic. Theso relics consist of a number of foreign nnd domestic coins, dating ns fnr back as 4793. Some of tho Interesting In-teresting finds aro a number of test coins that wero experimented with by tho officials In tho olden times. Theso coins aro similar to Chlueso money, each containing a hole In tho center thnt was filled with vailous kinds of metal to bring up tho value ot tho coin. |