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Show - Facts Worth Knowing About World's Money Having clasped hands with Ihe edi-j tor of the Ogrden Standard-Bx'aiiiiner, and he so kindly gave SpsJcs in his val-uatde val-uatde paper for my tirst article for, November 14, headed. Interesting Facts About Money " and being thus encouraged, 1 have written this short article along numismatic lines, which, 1 trust, some ot the readers will find Interesting. In-teresting. Egypt some 1S00 or L'000 years. B.I C , used uncoined money, and we know! that the precious metals wore kept In dust, in ingots, and in ornamental forms, but more especially in forms of rings, and were of a given weight. La-tor, La-tor, in order that a given weight of gold might be exchangeable for a whale (not fractional) number of bars or wages of silver, the weight of the silver sheckel (mlna talent) was raised until it stood to that of the gold sheckel In proportion of 4.'. a I given weight of gold was always equtv-I equtv-I alent to ten times the same weight of silver. One gold sheckel equals ten silver sheckels. 2 minas of gold equals tWenty minas of silver, etc. A gold sheckel l-'O grains. 12 1-3 sllvci sheckels 1080 grains. Phoenician sheckel. a heavy silver ' sheckel of circa Jr' l grains There were also in use what is known as the small sheckel or light sheckel of 11J grains. Tho latter was used In Syria, Western Asia Ml-I Ml-I nor. and Greece. The Babylonian silver sheckel in 1 proportion of 2.3 with gold to silver In i the ratio of 13 1-3. The gold shecko. of 252 (126) grains H equivalent t fifteen Phoenician silver sheckels. Phoenician and Babylonian standards stand-ards 50 sheckels to a mlna and00 minas to a talent. The first coins of Persia were issued is-sued by Darius llystaspls (B. C. 522-4861. The standard weight of the Lngll-sh sovereign (20 shilllnKs) is 123: 271 Troy. The heavy sheckel spoken of here j weighs a little more than two sov-! sov-! erelgns I r n u i.aIuIiI ' -I-.. ( pay. I'tcn" means ring or coiled wire. Try to memorize these few names of coins: i Kektedrachm Dodekadrachm, Di-draehro, Di-draehro, Drachm, Hemidrachm, octo-! drachm, Tekadrachm, Trldrachm. 'let-' radrachm and Btater, Higois, Sester-' sen, t'hol, Trlobol, Lopton and Litra. 'I lie above are names of coins, bull in a pinch nne might pick out those j that would do for twins. They would' be numlsraatlcaliy Interesting, i mean! the names, not the tw.ins. I don't know as much about twins as 1 do about coins. The highest price ever paid for a coin was $t0,o00. That .sum was paid each fur the two unique ?50 gold pieces of 1877. Only two struck. Tin- famous 1 S 4 dollar is valued I at a high mark The writer hug of-! fsred from $500 to $1500 for one, and thl ;offer stands good indefinitely, j but It depends entirely upon the con- ; dition of the coin, and even then it Is : always a question as to whether or not I an 1801 dollar is au "1S04". There arc enly seven dollars of that date l known, and tho fact that none were brought to light until 1-I2 makes mo doubt .very much t Mat there ecr wuh I a dollar struck In tho year of 1804. I still tho records at the Philadelphia, mint show nearly Tii.oOO btruck in that year. I wish some one would; kindly tell me where they are, or one of them, at least. Many people w. II on in years never j saw the 26c and 50c gold pieces, mm often have I been laughed at when 1 talked of the $3. $4 and $25 gold) pieces. In the early days of California they had Ingots (not coins) of the valuo of j $1.43, $16.. $36. $40.07 and $43.34 I These ingots were square, oblong, and brick shaped. There is also the California Cal-ifornia $50 slug (octagon). Many of these coins, ingots and slugs were I made by an uncle of the writer by i the name of Moffat, whoso name v I appears on the coins. The United States never issued a gold coin smaller than a dollar. The 25c, 50c, etc,, were made by 1 companies. The gold dollar weighs 25. S grains, 1 9-90 pure gold, or 23.22 grains. The flrrt gold dollar was struck in 1849. The alloy in tho gold coins of the : United States is pure silver and copper, cop-per, and In the silver coins pure cop- 1 1 per. I The 25c and 50c pieces were not to be considered as legal coinage or le- I gal lender, but were accepted and j p d current at a time when there, was a pressing need of money with I Which to transact the business of the ! count ry. Such coinage is now prohibited prohib-ited by existing laws. The only coin ever Issued by ourj government with the portrait of a foreign monarch is the now quite rare 1 Isabella quarter of 1893. As in the other "Pioneer states," ' gold dust was the only currcnly among' the Mormons In 1849 when they Issued, Is-sued, gold coins bearing their own stamp Their coins were made In: 1849, 1850 and 1S60 only Denomtna I tions $2.50, $5.00, $10.00 and $20 00 1 Do you know that postage stamps wore used as money here in our own country? I'nuscd postage stamps ert encased In a round n.ietal case, and a I piece of mica covered the stamp. These i stnmps wore $lc. 2c, 3c, 5c, 10c, 12c, j in,. n,,.i nn I K I ON Uj CURREN4 5 Immediately after special payments re suspend.il In tho early part, of 1.862, when .-iiiil and sliver coins disappeared dis-appeared from circulation, tickets, due bills, and other forms of private obll-gatlons obll-gatlons wore in U3e Congress soon authorised the use of postage stamps for change, and then a modified form of postage currency, and finally fractional frac-tional currency Inu denominations cor-respondlng cor-respondlng to the subsidiary silver coins The) wers 3c, 5c, ioc, 15c. 25c, and 50c. notes. I ONI IMA I l. 01 KK1 Was issued under authority of the congress of the United Colonies, 17 75 to 1779. Denominations $1-6. $';, $1-3, $V&. $1, $2. $3. $4. $5. $C. $7, $8. $20. $25. $30. $35, $40. $45, $50. $55. $60. $65. $70. and $MJ Throw these bills in a basket with the little "shtnplasters" (fractional currency; and shake well and you would have a sort of Duke's mixture." There are only seventy-four dates of the United States Standard dollars tthe writer will give $2,200 for tho first fifty dates, if all are In fine condition). con-dition). Eleven trade dollars. 1.11 , half dollars, 2 (. 'olumblan and 1 Col- umblan or Dabella quarter (now quite 1 rare), I dates of the 20c pieces, 101 dunes, 53 half-dimes, and 23 of tho 3e-plocos. owing to the present high price of silver which Is bound, to prevail for a considerable time to come, sliver icdlns are scarce, both foreign a in I in our country- Few new pieces are I being issued. .N'ciili all Countries now prohibit the exportation of silver ami, Kobl coins. Even our country has discontinued dis-continued the coinage ana distribution distribu-tion of sliver dollars sine- 1904. Rare coins ami old (when I say old I meat, from 100 to "i&OO years old) coins In fine condition are hard to obtain' SILVER COINS OF ENGLAND. Next to our own coinage, represent to the merlcan collector, the most, Interesting coinage of the world from, a historical as well as artistic point, of view. Take for instance the sllvei penny .f Henry III. 121 to 127 Lid-ward Lid-ward I., U'7a to 1307. Henry VIII., 1500 to 15-17, (Croat) Phillip and) Mary Nhlllln?. Elizabeth Hammered Shilling (Queen Elisabeth dated the' first coins of the world. James i.. Charles I., and II and William III. which l.ruiKs ns down to 1 6 9 8 , Anne 1707 to 1711. Georeo I 1720, George II, 1732-1743. George, 111., 1804 (a genuine dollar of 1S04 and the only; dollar KiiKlnn.l evei issued) to 17 IS, George IV. William IV. and Victor-la Victor-la whose reign covered over sixty years and was dearly loved by her subjects sub-jects Tho most remarlcable, curious, oldest old-est and largest nolo 1 ever had the pleasure to look upon came from the Treasury of the imperial Palace Pe-klnt'. Pe-klnt'. China. Hung Wei Reign (about 430 yeajra old good for one strln;; of cash. I 'Tinted In black and red op a dark greyish heavy paper in native. characters (size of note i'wxKl'j inches. H G. FaJRCHIUD. Numismatist, Dealer In old and rare coins, and' medals from all parts the world. Any degree of rarity, 251 Twenty-fifth street. Ogdeh, Utah ou |