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Show BRITISH MINT MAKES RECORD Number of Coins and Value Exceed Former Outputs Both In Value and Number of Coins. London. Tho output of tho royal mint In 1912 lnrgoly exceeded, both in valuo and In the number of coins produced, pro-duced, nil provlous records. Sir T. II. Elliott, deputy master of tho mint, stntes in IiIh annunl report that nearly near-ly 1C2.G00.000 imperial coins woro struck there during tho year, and that this number exceedod tho highest provlous pro-vlous flguro of any yoar by nearly 34,-000,000. 34,-000,000. Tho gold colnago oxeceded that ol 1011 by about 400,000 plecos. TUo numbor of plocoa struck in silvor has only onco beon oxceoded, in 1010, though tho valuo of tho colnago In this motal in 1912 was greater than in nny provlouB year. Tho colnago in bronzo numborB upwards of 77,000,000 pieces of a valuo of $1,257,010, figures which aro unprecedented for any yoar. Tho heavy Imperinl coinages mado it again impossible to undortako all tho colonial ordorB which woro tendered, and only soma 8.C00.000 of colonial colnB woro struck, a smaller numbor thnn In any year slnco 1890. Tho total colnago of tho year amounted to over 171,000,000 pieces of a curroncy valuo of upwardB of $182,500,000, tho highest high-est flguro on record. |