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Show MAKES MONEY FOR MANY. English Mint Furnishes Coin To Other Nations. Birmingham, England, has a mint which in addition to turning out millions mil-lions of English coins does moro In tho way of supplying foreign governments govern-ments with coin than any other money-making establishment in tho world. A fow days ago it shipped tho first installment of a hugo Egyptian Egyp-tian order for 10,000,000 plasters. Tho consignment weighed ilvo tons, was conveyed In sixty cases and val-a val-a nod at $15,000,000. For well over a jaHWr century Birmingham has taken tho lead In this lltoral kind of money making. As far back as 1797 ono Arm coined, under contract for tho British government, 4,000 tono of copper cop-per coin, valued at about $4,000,000. Among tho countries and governments govern-ments which havo gone tlmo after time to Illrmlngham for their monoy are India, Tunis, Canada, Turkey, China, Hongkong, Haiti, Sarawak, Tuscany, Venezuela and Chllo. |