Annual Report

of the

Director of the Mint

for the

Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1870.

Philadelphia:
Wm. F. Murphy’s Sons, Printers,

339 Chestnut Street, & 55 South Fourth Street.

1870.

Mint of the United States,
Philadelphia, October 24, 1870.

Sir:
I have the honor to submit the following Report of the operations of the Mint and Branches for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870.

Deposits and Coinage.

The deposits of bullion at the Mint and Branches during the fiscal year were as follows: gold, $29,485,268 45; silver, $3,504,942 51. Total deposits, $32,990,210 96.

Deducting the re-deposits or bars made at one branch of the Mint and re-deposited in another for coinage, the amount will be $30,408,788 10.

The coinage for the same period was as follows: gold coin, number of pieces, 1,156,087; value, $22,257,312 50; unparted and fine gold bars, $7,846,052 25; silver coin, pieces, 4,649,398; value, $1,767,253 50; silver bars, $902,800 66; nickel, copper and bronze pieces, 18,154,000; value, $611,445 00; total number of pieces struck, 23,961,292; total value of coinage, $33,384,863 91.

The distribution of the bullion received and coined at the Mint and Branches was as follows:—

Philadelphia. — At Philadelphia, gold deposited, $2,880,069 22; gold coined, $2,830,752 50; fine gold bars, $171,624 97; silver deposited and purchased, $1,352,588 09; silver coined, $1,152,960 50; silver bars, $195,078 01; nickel, copper and bronze coinage, value, $611,445 00. Total deposits of gold and silver, $4,232,657 31; total coinage, $4,961,860 98; total number of pieces, 21,330,546.

San Francisco. — At the Branch Mint, San Francisco, the gold deposits were $18,816,981 07; gold coined, $19,316,050 00; silver deposited and purchased, $494,418 11; silver coined, $594,500 00. Total deposits and purchases, $19,311,399 18; total coinage, $19,910,550 00; total number of pieces, 2,592,180.

New York. — The Assay Office in New York received during the year in gold bullion, $6,657,891 94; in silver bullion, including purchases, $1,613,364 46. Total value received, $8,271,256 40; number of fine gold bars stamped, 7,426; value, $6, 656, 268 11; silver bars, 5,984; value, $707,400 04; total value of gold and silver bars stamped, $7,363,668 15.

Denver. — At the Branch Mint, now Assay Office, Denver, Colorado, the deposits for unparted bars were, gold, $990,063 18; silver, $15,987 08. Total deposits, $1,006,050 26. This statement exhibits a very gratifying increase in the deposits over those of last year, and we have every reason to anticipate a continuing increase in the deposits and business of this office. It is principally engaged in melting, assaying and stamping gold and silver bullion, and returning the same to the depositors in unparted bars bearing the government stamp of weight and fineness. The experience of the past year fully justifies the declaration made in my last Annual Report, that “ as an Assay Office it will meet all the demands of the miner and promote as effectually the mining interests of the region as a mint for coinage could possibly do.” All this it has accomplished promptly and satisfactorily, and greatly aided and encouraged the efforts made to discover and increase the production of the precious metals.

Charlotte. — The deposits at the Branch Mint, Charlotte, North Carolina, now in operation as an Assay Office, have not been large, but are increasing. These deposits are assayed and returned to depositors in the form of unparted bars. The deposits for bars during the year were, gold, $16,108 60; an increase of $12,948 20, over those of last year.

Dahlonega and New Orleans. — The Branch Mints at Dahlonega, Georgia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, are still closed and no necessity exists for their being again opened either as Assay Offices or Branch Mints.

Carson City. — The Branch Mint at Carson City, Nevada, is now in operation. In May, 1869, the fitting up of this branch for business as a Mint was commenced, and completed in December of that year. On the 8th of January, 1870, it was opened for the reception of bullion. The Superintendent in his Report, says, “Since that time the business has been steadily increasing, and, with the facilities afforded other institutions of its kind, will do a large business both in refining and coining.”

This Branch Mint, to make it efficient and successful, requires a bullion fund equal to the legitimate demands of business, and the just expectations of its depositors. No such fund has, as yet, been provided for the Institution. The urgent request of the Superintendent for such fund, was approved by the Director and forwarded to the proper authorities for their consideration and action. It is desirable that the subject should be favorably considered, and the fund provided. “The delay,” says the Superintendent in his report, “in giving the Branch a sufficient amount of gold and silver to cash deposits so soon as their value should be determined, has operated very injuriously, as well in regard to the amount of bullion received, as in the expense of working it. Large lots of bullion can be worked with far less percentage of wastage than small ones; and the labor of re-melting and re-assaying has been much greater than if larger quantities could have been worked at once.”

In reference to the future of this Branch, and its influence in developing the mineral resources of the country, the report says: “The mining interests of the country from whence the larger portion of bullion is received, are improving rapidly; new mines are being developed and larger quantities of bullion produced as the cost of working the ore is becoming reduced.” “With proper arrangement and facilities afforded this Branch, it will increase its business materially during the next fiscal year, and give much aid in developing the mining interests of this and adjoining States.”

The deposits at this Branch during the year, were, gold, $124,154 44; gold coined, $110,576 05; silver deposits and purchases, $28,262 16; silver coined, $19,793 00. Total deposits and purchases, $152,416 60; total coinage, $132,369 05; total number of pieces, 38,566. The report is very encouraging, and it is earnestly desired that the present anticipations of its officers may be fully realized in the future prosperity of this branch. I cannot forbear repeating the declaration made in my last annual report, that the policy of the government in relation to the development of the mineral wealth of our country should be liberal and generous. [The third number should be the sum of the first two numbers, but the third number is too large by 2,000. Editor]

Branch Mint Policy. — For my views on the subject of Assay Offices and the impolicy of increasing the number of Branch Mints, I refer respectfully to my previous Reports, in which they will be found fully and freely expressed.

The importance of the early completion of the new Branch Mint building at San Francisco, cannot be too strongly urged upon the government. Every consideration of public and private interest demands it. I have, in former Reports, expressed my convictions of the importance of this work, and now earnestly repeat the recommendations then made.

Redemption of Copper and Nickel Coins.

As authorized by law, the redemption of the nickel-copper cents was continued during the fiscal year, by exchange for the five cent nickel coins. The amount thus redeemed was, in pounds, 68,237; value, $66,872 26. The amount redeemed last year was, $101,465 25, showing a decrease of $34,592 99, and being $193,609 78 less than the amount redeemed during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868. The amount now outstanding is but little, if any, in excess of the actual demand. This is evident from the fact of the decreasing redemption, and that orders during the past year for the bronze one and two cent pieces were largely in excess of the amount redeemed.

Should provision be made by law for the redemption of the one cent and two cent bronze coins? I have no hesitation in answering this question in the negative. No consideration of public interest or private convenience demands the redemption of those coins or the substitution of a nickel one cent piece for the bronze coin of that denomination. Provision is already made for redeeming the five cent nickel coins, and beyond this, the redemption of the base coinage is not demanded or expected by the public. I respectfully refer you to my remarks on this subject in my last annual report.

Profits. — The net profits of the nickel-copper and bronze coinage paid into the Treasury of the United States during the fiscal year were two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars ($275,000 00).

The demand for this small coinage has, from various causes, largely declined. The redemption and recall of the paper fractional currency would increase the demand.

As required by law, the alloy of the minor coinage has been regularly assayed and reported by the Assayer of the Mint, and the legal proportion of the constituent metals has been properly maintained.

Silver-Token Coinage.

In my last annual report I urged the adoption of a silver currency “for change,” in lieu of the postal or small note currency, as an important adjuvant to a general resumption of specie payments, and that such substitution would be acceptable to the people, and fully approved by them. It is gratifying to know that the suggestions then made have had the approval of men well versed in political economy, and of sound practical judgment. A number of our leading commercial newspapers have also emphatically endorsed the proposition.

The recommendation made was, in substance, that, without waiting for the resumption of specie payments, Congress shall authorize the issue, at once, of silver coins of the denominations of 10, 25 and 50 cents; that whilst the weight of the proposed coins be reduced below that of the corresponding present silver coins, the standard fineness should be preserved; in other words, those coins to be of equal purity with the present silver coinage; that they be issued to a limited amount, adequate to supply the real wants of the community, in exchange for U. S. Notes, including fractional currency, and be made a legal tender to a small amount, say five or ten dollars.

Such substitution would be a real reform in our currency and less objectionable in form and fact than the present paper issues of the lower fractions of the dollar. The objections to this proposed coinage will apply with equal force to the present fractional silver coinage; for this last, while of standard fineness, is both in weight and value below the true standard; and, if the objections apply with equal force to our present silver coinage, how much more to our small notes, our paper change, the material of which has no intrinsic value whatever, and which is, and can be so easily counterfeited?

The reduction in weight of these coins, whilst it would render them intrinsically worth less than the nominal value, woidd not make them unacceptable as “change,” but would counteract any disposition to hoard or export them, and thus keep them in constant circulation.

A supply of silver for the purpose of this coinage could be readily obtained. The product of silver in Nevada and Colorado will be sufficient to meet this demand, and could come direct to us from Denver, Carson and Virginia Cities, without going to San Francisco, or passing through the hands of speculators. By reason of the profits of this coinage we could afford to pay a price sufficient to divert our silver product either from China or Europe. Other sources of supply would be open to us. In any contingency a full supply of silver could be procured.

The coins would be issued in exchange for paper currency, and be redeemed in like manner; and when specie payments are resumed, or having returned to a permanent specie basis, we could re-coin the amount redeemed, and return it to the general specie circulation of the country. Re-coining of silver, when long used as a circulating medium, is a necessity; as it becomes deteriorated in value and defaced by abrasion when in constant use. Re-coining, then, is no objection to the new coinage.

In the language of one who has given this subject much intelligent consideration, and whose published essays are full of information, “This is not a scheme for debasing the standard of value. Its only object is to restore silver upon such a basis, under legal sanctions, as will enable it to keep its subsidiary place, whether the chief currency be paper, as it is now, or gold, as we hope it will soon be. Limited in legal tender and in amount of issue, these silver coins will serve their purpose as well as if they were twice as heavy; in fact will be found more convenient.”

The following statement or table exhibits the weight, diameter and value of the present and proposed silver coinage.

If the proposed reduction should be deemed too great, a weight of 168 grains for the half dollar, and other pieces in proportion, as already proposed in Congress, would enable us to coin silver so long as gold is not over 19 per cent, premium.

Work of the Mint and Branches.

The Mint work is necessarily hindered and restricted by the continued suspension of specie payments. We are doing less than was done many years ago, when there was a much smaller population and far less wealth. Certainly there is no need of creating any more coining establishments.

Emerging from a tremendous civil war which shook every social interest to the very foundation, it is no wonder that our currency continues in an abnormal condition. Most of our people rarely get the sight of a gold or silver coin. They know, by the state of the money market, the relation between the precious metals and current paper notes, and they must be kept advised of this to understand what is the real value of those notes; but the gold by which the measure is made, is almost as much out of sight, as the sacred pound troy, or kilogram, carefully guarded as the final resort.

But the people at large will never give up the idea that the real money is made of gold and silver; made of definite weight and fineness, and certified by Government stamp. They will use paper, and its use will increase; its imponderable property makes it a very great convenience. Still it is only paper; a little fire or water destroys it; and if it does not bear a market relation to gold, it may be kept safe, and yet will buy nothing. A cabinet minister of England has intimated that we might do without gold and silver money, were it not that we must bend to popular prejudices. But in this matter the common sense of the masses is superior to the subtle arguments of statesmen and financiers. Paper, guaranteed by Government, answers some of the ends of money, at least within the bounds of its Government; but gold primarily, and silver as a subsidiary, perfectly answer all the requirements of currency.

They would seem to have been so designed by an all-wise Creator, in foresight of the needs of civilized society. Their adaptation is admirable. They are scarce, and valuable; always in request for articles of ornament, or household use of the higher type; they pass through fire without loss, and are easily restored to the former condition; they are ductile and easily wrought; their quality or fineness can be quickly and most minutely ascertained; they are pleasant to the touch, and their color is distinctive, beautiful and inimitable. In addition to all this, the superior metal, gold, has a weightiness, or specific gravity, which sets at nought the baser imitations; and both metals, if heavy to carry, are solid to keep. They may be said to last forever. Very many coins, both gold and silver, struck centuries before the christian era, continue almost as fresh and bright as when they first left the mint. This is not saying that they will not suffer by wear; but that in their own nature, and with ordinary care, they are indestructible. Such peculiar qualities do not belong to paper or any other substitute for money.

It really seems necessary to reproduce these well known facts, from time to time, to counteract the danger of falling into the very error just quoted as coming from a British statesman. Indeed, a highly respectable journal noted for its judicious money articles, has said that as our porte-monnaies are now so well adapted to notes of all sizes down to the lower fractions of a dollar, we might as well keep on with those bits of paper, and dispense with silver. Thus a mere paper fractional currency, got up to serve an exigency, is first endured, and finally embraced, even in rags. The retired writer, sitting at a desk, may persuade himself into such a notion; but those who are paying and receiving, in shops and markets, are heartily tired of handling and respecting as money, what they would not handle and respect as anything else. These crumpled notes induce habits of prodigality and wastefulness. A man will spend a ragged quarter of a dollar where he would save a solid silver coin of the same denomination. These arguments are not so much felt by the favored few, especially in cities, who can commonly supply themselves with fresh and clean notes; but the case is different in the open country, where people must take what they can get.

But the deficiency of Mint work is not solely due to the continued suspension of specie payments. It happens in other countries, where there is no such suspension. The Royal Mint of London, a gigantic institution whose work diffuses itself throughout the world, often has its times of relaxation and leisure, because there are times when there is money enough. So we must expect similar alternations; and indeed we have them. Some years we have been over-crowded; other years we have had little to do. The same irregularities attach to many departments of business, however unwelcome they may be to those who like to be steadily employed.

Although at present the amount of work in the Mint and Branches is not so great as in former years by reason of causes over which these institutions have no control, yet it is gratifying, on taking a review of their operations for the past ten or eleven years, to see how large and important these have been. The deposits and coinage at the Mint in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and the Assay Office in New York, are worthy of special attention, and prove that these institutions have well fulfilled their respective duties. The following tables, made from official records, of the value of the deposits in gold and silver from the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1859 to 1869, inclusive, at Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York: and of the coinage in value and number of pieces at the Philadelphia and San Francisco Mints, will exhibit the nature and extent of the work done, and quietly and significantly tell their own story.

Table of Deposits of Gold and Silver at the U. S. Mint, Philadelphia; Branch Mint, San Francisco; and Assay Office, Mew York, from 1859 to 1869, inclusive.

Statement of Coinage at the United States Mint, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Branch Mint, from 1859 to 1869, inclusive, together with the number of pieces struck.

Memorandum of Gold and Silver Bars, made from 1859 1869, inclusive.

Recapitulation. Coinage and Fine Bars.

Number of Pieces, 1859 to 1869, Inclusive.

It will thus be seen that whilst the “coinage and fine bars” at the Branch Mint at San Francisco, exceeded in value the “coinage and fine bars” at the Mint at Philadelphia, nearly $41,000,000, the Mint at Philadelphia, in the number of pieces struck, exceeded the Branch at San Francisco, over four hundred and sixty-two millions.

Now, when it is known that a bronze coin of one cent in value, requires nearly as much labor in its preparation and manufacture as a gold dollar or double eagle, the enormous amount of the work and labor done at the parent Mint will be seen and appreciated. San Francisco with twenty-two millions two hundred and forty-six thousand seven hundred and eight pieces (22,246,708) produced a coinage of $184,439,199 15 in value; Philadelphia with four hundred and eighty-four millions seven hundred and eighty-seven thousand one hundred and seventy pieces (484,787,170) produced a coinage of $143,490,741 88 in value. If each piece struck at the parent Mint had been equal in value to each piece coined at the San Francisco Branch, the coinage of the Philadelphia Mint during the period named would have largely exceeded in value the entire national debt.

Such results are alike creditable to both these minting institutions. The object of these comparisons is not to draw lines of preference among kindred institutions, but to show that each one has had its own work to do, and that where one is to be credited with large value, another is no less to be credited with the large aggregate number of pieces struck.

New Foreign Coins.

Since the last Report, a few new foreign coins have come to the Mint.

1. The gold piece of ten francs or one carolin, struck in Sweden, is understood to be intended as a contribution to the cause of international coinage upon the French basis. The standards are the same as the similar coin of France. The piece bears the effigy of the King of Sweden, with legends in Swedish, and is creditable as a work of art. But as it does not bear any facile relation to the regular currency of the realm, and is intended only for commercial use, it cannot be said to further the idea of unification. That is to say, there are still two kinds of money, one for home use and one for exportation, requiring some arithmetic to turn the one into the other.

2. The silver piece of 25 cents coined for Canada, bears date 1870. It is of the British or sterling fineness (925 thousands) and therefore not intended to be conformed to its sister denomination coined in this country. Nor is it quite of the same bullion value: since our piece contains 86.4 grains fine silver, and the Canada piece 83.25, a difference of nearly four per cent. Yet they will no doubt be at par in circulation.

The Canada pound, the former money of account, was rated as equal to four United States dollars. But for the last fifteen years, accounts have been kept there in dollars and cents. The United States silver half and quarter dollars have been their currency for many years. Until recently, payments large and small have been made in this coin. But the excessive accumulation of it, especially during our war, and the fact of its not being equal to gold in bullion value, has caused some discredit and depreciation and a large exportation of the coin to a bullion market. And now a new quarter dollar, just mentioned, has been provided; and along with it, strange to say, a quarter dollar in paper, much after the fashion of our own. It does not appear what is the object of having both a silver and a paper quarter dollar, to be used concurrently, unless it be that the latter is a temporary issue.

3. We note a very conspicuous change in the Mexican dollar; not in the standards, but in the devices. Artistically, there is a great improvement. There are, as before, the eagle, and serpent, and cactus, with the legend Republica Mexicana and date; and on the other side the radiated cap of Libertad reduced in size, and under it a scroll of “LEY,” with a balance and sword; but the 8 R. (eight reales) is displaced, and the denomination is Un Peso, conformably to common usage. The fineness is no longer expressed in dineros and granos, but the equivalent in thousandths, 902.7. It is quite to be regretted that they did not make it precisely 900, the standard so largely adopted and likely to become universal. In point of fact, the great mass of Mexican dollars of all dates, do not average more than 901. These new pieces bear the dates 1869 and 1870, and the mint-mark of the City of Mexico. Whether the same devices will be used by the various provincial mints, does not appear. There are dollars of Chihuahua, of 1869, bearing the old stamp.

4. We have also a new Mexican gold piece of Veinten Pesos, twenty dollars, dating 1870, of course intended to supersede the time-honored Doubloon, and apparently a continuation of the twenty dollar piece of the “Imperio Mexicano” of 1866. It is three grains heavier, however, than the coin of Maximilian: that is, it is 523 troy grains, or 1.09 ounce. It bears the usual legend, Republica Mexicana, the value and the figures 875 expressive of the fineness; equal to 21 carats, as formerly. At these rates it is equal to $19 72 in our money, without Mint charge. It is a very rare piece just now, but may become common in future years. The gold pieces of Maximilian will forever be curiosities in cabinets of rare coins.

The new Mexican dollars varying from 415 to 417 grains, may be said to maintain the usual average weight. New pieces of the old type are found to run as high as 905 thousands in fineness. A coin so much used in commerce ought to be more steady.

Of the new series of Bolivian coins, only the dollar has yet appeared in this country, and it proves to be, as intended, on a par with the French piece of five francs in weight and fineness.

Devices on Coins.

This might be a proper opportunity to say a few words in regard to the changing of devices on coins, about which there is a wide diversity of opinion.

As to the Mexican dollar, it is not exactly in the category of national coins. It is eminently international, and a special favorite in the Asiatic ports. There, its well known face, though somewhat rude, makes it instantly receivable. In a new dress, and with a contracted diameter, it may be an object of suspicion, and in that point of view it might have been better to have retained the old devices, just as in Austria, they still coin a dollar for the Levant trade, bearing the head of Maria Theresa, and the date 1780.

But the question remains, whether coins less cosmopolitan, may be frequently changed in appearance. Those who are fond of making cabinet collections, and the lovers of art generally, are clamorous for new pictures. They would like the series of coins to be monuments of national history, sure witnesses of events, like the coins of ancient Rome. At least they demand that “heads and tails” shall not present their dull monotony for long decades of years, so that there is no mark of difference except the date.

Our own coin is particularly liable to this objection. In other lands kings and emperors die or are displaced, and everybody is eager to get the new coin with the new head. But here it must be, under the law, a “figure emblematic of Liberty,” which indeed, allows some liberty of full length, or head and bust, but after all, it is only an idea, or an abstraction; and as past experience shows, very much a stereotype. And one reason for this practice is to be found, not only in the rigid requirements of the law, but in the counter-opinion, which considers that there ought to be no marked change except where there is a change of standards; this being the very proper way to introduce them. It is argued that a coin in a new dress always creates a necessity for explanation, and induces some apprehension. The certificate which a Government stamps upon its coin, is a very sacred thing, much like the great seal of a State, whose fixedness indicates stability. So that while this numismatic party would not forbid occasional changes, and would always have them to indicate a new weight or fineness, they are very conservative in their adherence to old and well-known types.

These remarks are not made to preface an opinion on the question, but merely to show how the question stands, that others may judge for themselves.

Mineral Specimens.

A part of the almost daily business of our Assay Department, is to examine and report upon mineral specimens, sent or brought from all parts of the United States. This work is extra-official, but is cheerfully performed as a public benefit. In cases where a chemical trial is required, there is a moderate charge, which inures to the expense account of the Mint.

It is to be regretted, however, that there is so little discernment amongst those who fancy they have made a discovery, inasmuch as we are constantly called upon to examine stones of the most ordinary character, of no greater value than for building or paving.

Our school-teachers or country physicians might, and as a general rule, perhaps they do, acquire enough of the principles of mineralogy and geology to be of real use to their unlettered neighbors in this respect, and save the expensive transmission of boxes of stone over long lines of travel. In some cases, the wizard expert of the mineral rod, or the village blacksmith, has excited high hopes which it was our unpleasant duty to dissipate. In other cases, Indian traditions have been confidently relied on, and we have been compelled to contradict the science or the legends of the aborigines.

A moderate knowledge of geological impossibilities would quiet any apprehensions of silver or gold, save in infinitesimal proportions, in many a large expanse of our country. Happily we have other kinds of riches buried in the soil everywhere, of which we may be as proud, and with which we may be as well satisfied, as with our unequalled mines and domains of precious metals.

Table of Foreign Coins. — The statement of the weight, fineness and value of foreign coins required by law to be made annually, will be found appended to this report. The additions made to our annual tables have been noticed in this report.

Medal Department. — This department has been successfully operated during the past year. A large number of medals have been made and sold.

The Mint Cabinet. — The cabinet of coins and medals still continues to attract a large number of visitors from every State in the Union, and from foreign countries. It deserves the fostering care of the Government.

Statistical Tables. — The statistics relating to the deposits of bullion and coinage at the Mint of the United States and Branches, will be found in the tabular statements hereto annexed. Since the publication of the last annual report, inaccuracies were discovered in the statistical tables for a year or two previous, that made some of the later exhibits practically unreliable. All the tables have since been carefully collated and compared for several years past, and as now presented are believed to be correct and trustworthy.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES POLLOCK,
Director of the Mint.

Hon. George S. Boutwell,
   Secretory of the Treasury,
      Washington, D. C..

A.— Statement of Deposits at the Mint of the United States, the Branch Mint, San Francisco, Assay Office, New York, and Branch Mints, Denver, Charlotte and Carson City, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870.

B.— Statement of Gold and Silver of Domestic production, deposited at the Mint of the U.S., the Branch Mint, San Francisco, Assay Office, New York, and Branch Mints, Denver, Charlotte and Carson City, during the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1870.

C.— Statement of the Coinage at the Mint of the United States, the Branch Mint, San Francisco, Assay Office, New York, and Branch Mints, Carson City, Nev., Charlotte, N.C., and Denver, Col., during the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1870.

D 1— Coinage of the Mint and Branches,

From their organization to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870.

MINT OF THE UNITED STATES, PHILADELPHIA.

D 2— Coinage of the Mint and Branches, (Continued.)

MINT OF THE UNITED STATES, PHILADELPHIA, (Continued.)

D 3— Coinage of the Mint and Branches, (Continued.)

MINT OF THE UNITED STATES, PHILADELPHIA, (Continued.)

E 1— Coinage of the Mint and Branches, (Continued.)

BRANCH MINT AT SAN FRANCISCO.

E 2— Coinage of the Mint and Branches, (Continued.)

BRANCH MINT, SAN FRANCISCO, (Continued.)

F 1— Coinage of the Mint and Branches, (Continued.)

BRANCH MINT, NEW ORLEANS.

F 2— Coinage of the Mint and Branches (Continued.)

BRANCH MINT, NEW ORLEANS, (Continued.)

G— Coinage of the Mint and Branches, (Continued.)

BRANCH MINT, DAHLONEGA, GA.

H— Coinage of the Mint and Branches, (Continued.)

BRANCH MINT, CHARLOTTE, N.C.

I— Coinage of the Mint and Branches, (Continued.)

ASSAY OFFICE, N.Y.

K— Coinage of the Mint and Branches, (Continued.)

BRANCH MINT, DENVER.

L— Coinage of the Mint and Branches, (Continued.)

Summary exhibit of the Coinage of the Mint and Branches, to the close of the year, ending June 30, 1870.

M— Statement of Gold of Domestic Production,

Deposited at the Mint of the United States and Branches, to the close of the year ending June 30, 1870.

MINT OF THE UNITED STATES, PHILADELPHIA.

N— Statement of Gold of Domestic Production, (Continued.)

BRANCH MINT, SAN FRANCISCO.

O— Statement of Gold of Domestic Production. (Continued.)

BRANCH MINT, NEW ORLEANS.

P— Statement of Gold of Domestic Production. (Continued.)

BRANCH MINT, DAHLONEGA.

Q— Statement of Gold of Domestic Production. (Continued.)

BRANCH MINT, CHARLOTTE, N.C.

R— Statement of Gold of Domestic Production, (Continued.)

ASSAY OFFICE, NEW YORK.

S— Statement of Gold of Domestic Production. (Continued.)

BRANCH MINT, DENVER.

T— Statement of Gold of Domestic Production. (Continued.)

SUMMARY EXHIBIT OF THE ENTIRE DEPOSITS OF DOMESTIC GOLD AT THE MINT OF THE UNITED STATES AND BRANCHES.

To June 30, 1870.

U— Statement of the Silver Coinage at the Mint of the United States and Branches at San Francisco, New Orleans and Carson City, under the Act of February 21, 1853.