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Show FIVE MILLIONS FOR XMAS STOCKINGS Washington. D. C. Dec. 24 More than $5,000,000 worth of bright new gold and silver pieces of 1913 mint age out of which will find Its way Into Christmas stockings tomorrow morning, has been distributed b thi treasury this month to the banks throughout the country. IUk there is one iyl3 coin which no one will receive. It Is the 60-cent piece. None wore minted this year because the supply on hand was sufficient suf-ficient to take are of ali calls for that denomination. In this .ounce tion attention wai called by treasury officials to the fact that the 50 cent piece Is losing in popularity, and for tbe same reason as the two dollar bill, namely, because of tho ease with which error In change La made, aa compared with 'he quarter or the dollar dol-lar bill. It Is believed that in time the fifty-cent pieoe may go out altogether, alto-gether, as did two and three-cent pieces pie-ces and $3 gold coins Beginning about December 1 and lasting until almofat Christmas day. there has been a constant call on the treasury this ear for new money which banks and merchants all over the countrv waut for their patrons. ho that the treasury, sub treasuries and mintB are drained of the currort years money, which finds Its way back soon after New Year s. Half ol th monev coined during the ear Is rushed Into circulation in the month preceding Christmas. |