Show ll COIN IX IN C. In Driy 11 1 a i Mn Ily Foreign t tor n noi oi or II IJ itt I.-itt MH Coins In Call California Cornia till the fall Call of of oC 1856 J were wro a kettle kettle- of ot n fish h says the P. P E. E Magazine ln More than than- 60 pet per peri lel lelI i cent of the silver and at fit least 25 G pet per cent of ino gold Juhl was fot foreign Most of the other othel gold colas coins were were private cO coins ls Co got a permit per per- perI I tuft mil from Crom the JO government to coin colic gold field Id Their lt col coinage na c was Wl conO confined Id to 10 ando and 20 o coats cents and anal vero stamped Co We 0 had all aJl kinds of oC doubloons and f smaller South and Central American coins coin Of OC the tho smaller small l' l sold gold coins the French 20 franc piece led all others The Tho English guinea was fairly rep rep- resented But Hut It pa passed ed for only Its face value while the other gold passed for more The Tho franc JO piece value went at al 1 1 I There was teas a n. still greater discrepancy discrepancy anc ancy In tho the silver 1111 l coins coin A franc 1 piece went for 2 25 26 cents and the tho East Enst India rupee e. e value Hi cents cent wont event for fot I cents the tho franc 5 piece 1 The Tho French rench silver 1 represented about CO GO pc per percent r cent ent of oC the silver circulation G German silver lIver worth GO CO cents went vent at nt 1 I Everything above above- 50 GO cents was vas 1 t and c e 6 c cents was vas 5 jO 51 cents A French batik bank In San Sin Francisco to wo as said aid to hn have got ol i rich Ich shipping Frt neb Fit uch col Ii in ill exchange for or guld uld dust I United States coin oln was until the mint was established scarcer In the fall of 1866 the banks refused coins except at n a to tal take e any foreign heavy discount The result was as that In Ia a few months monthS' all foreign coin It proved a n. bonanza for the saloon people They would still sUII give gi gica franc while the banks s drink for Cor a a a gave only I 12 1 2 1 cents The saloon the rupees gathered them and people banks In at old prices and sold to the for fOl bullion and made a good thing But for a 11 few Cew years ear we suffered Even on until change for fo silver sil madly to cont considerable considerable consider consider- circulated dust 1 S G gold bold mining districts But nut abl able extent in the scales were always U used until There wt was no paper money manes D. D 0 O. O cC Co l Issued their thell gold In getting change 1858 1558 notes t ul about out 60 f iO 0 gold Kold often orten a aman as for fOl an un old oct octagon octon on nationalities four toUl or nl- live an as man many represented In the change would be he On all drafts dratt sent Lust ERst 3 was charged Adams Adam until I b by the express s companies Co failed and S Co Pa Page Pago c Bacon then it II left Idl the field Fargo to was raised to 5 recognized Greenbacks were never They commodity only as at a money as and nd buying lo postage ln n I used for bill bil mercantile All AM revenue contract contract con con- contract the special and notes hu had hod reads heads California for gold g tract enforcement claims of or the fedora federal oven paid the in gold And AntI it il came ir Jr government so Uncle Sam in handy to ml mighty California The rho style old and amI for Cor tho the inclining an I still Sun has I tuff stuff |