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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt:... present Director of the Mint estimates that the coin circulation of the United States aggregated--Gold, $542,174,636; silver, $278,824,201. Total, $820,998,837. Coinage Of The U. S. Mints, Fiscal Yeak To June 30, 1886. Gold coinage, $34,077,380 00 Silver coinage--silver dollars,.. 29,838,905 00 halves, quarters, and dimes,... 183,442 95 Minor coinage--five, three, and one cent pieces,.. 17,377 65 Total coinage,.... $64,117,105 60 Table Showing The Legal Weight And Fineness Ok The Coins Of The United States, And Their Diameter And Thickness. The Space Required For The Storage Of United States Gold And Silver Coins. The space occupied by a bag of standard silver dollars, piled in a mass, is 12 inches long, 9 wide, and 4 deep. Small silver packs better than dollars. The weight of a thousand dollars in subsidiary silver being 56 ounces less than that of an equal value in standard silver dollars, the spaces occupied by each vary but little from each other. Legai-Tenders And Bank Notes. In the following table are given the amounts and kinds of the outstanding currency of the United States and of the national banks on January 1, of each year, from 1866 to 1886, and on Nov. 1, 1886, to which is prefixed the amount on Aug. 31, 1865, when the public debt reached its maximum. 000 omitted. Includes $296,069 notes of gold banks and $220,599 mutilated currency in transit. Paper-Monet In Tiie United States. The following table shows, by denominations, the amount of national bank and legal tender notes outstanding on Nov. 1, 1880, and the aggregate amounts of both kinds of notes at the same period in 1884 and 1885: If the amounts of gold and silver coin and of currency in the treasury and the banks be deducted from the aggregate amount in the country, the remainder will b...