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Show Old Coins Discovered. Worklngmen In demolishing tho old smelter houso of tho first United Stntca mint, on Seventh street, Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, havo uncovered a number of relics of tho early days of tho republic. repub-lic. Thoso relics confilBt of a number of foreign nnd domestic coins, dating ns fnr back ns 1793. Somo of tho interesting in-teresting finds nro n number of test coins that wero experimented with by tho oftlclals in tho olden times. Theso coins nro similar to Chinese money, each containing n holo in tho center that was filled with variouB kinds of metal to bring up tho vnluo ot tho coin. |