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Show n . , - ELEVEN KINDS OF MONEY. Yheiwe are fortunate enough to get ho'.J of sor:v? of l.'nc'o Sam's ccin of the realm we seldom sermini '.e it closely, bec-ms we know that for practical purpose one dollar i rr. good a? another. In fact, the average citizen is prebably unaware that there are 11 distinct kinds of United States money, but such is t!v case. These include federal reserve notes, national bivk rtes silver certificates, geld coin, United State; rote?, subMA'nv;. silver, gold certificates, federal reserve br.nl: notes, ininor .c.: siiver dollars and treasury notes. At present the total amount of United Sb:.t?s money in circulation cir-culation is approximately So, 743, 000, 000. cf .which more t'n.: one-half is in federal reserve notes. Silver' coins constitute .-relatively .-relatively small portion o f the money in circa':.-i-m. but ibis vi!; be considerably increased under the recent proclamation of P; dent Roosevelt, which provides for the coinage cf a limited ad ditional amount. The administration's monetary policies are Pttr;etm? miic1 attention just now among financial and economic experts. Th-layman Th-layman knows little of what it is all about, and inasmuch as t'u experts are in thorough disagreement it seems that they don't know much about it either. |