FEWER SOVEREIGNS.
: /SIX/MILLIONS DECREASE IN LAST■:•-: ,;;::::.:;,YEAR'S .ISSUE;..;. ■• .,■ -The numbor of/sovereigns: issued from'the British Mint last/ year was 6,264,000 'fewer than in 1907, arid the nuriiber'of half-sov-ereigns issued 174.000 fewer. .An official return, gives,the following;figures/of the. value of; gold com; issued :—:■;:'/.;: :-/■■-;.'; ; .':/ ; /;';' .;■ ,S-i907;t;;:/1" :■:- icjos: • Sovereigns;.:;.:;;: ; :.; ■■-£ 18,864,000/; £12,600,000 Half-sovereigns-... .'•'.; .2,087,000;, 2,000,000 ;! The issues of, : British, silver and bronze coins were .also.largely below the totals for 1907. The values of tho coins issued were:— „;■' : ;; 1907;; ; : ' ,:■ ;••'• ■ wos.',: Silver :•.-... : r ..-.' / £888,739 . £423 276 Bronze;;,/..;/ ~v.. . : 200,235;;. . 138,135 ,The extent/to which.nickel and aluminiurii coins., are ' saperseding' silver and bronze in various colonies >:is Bliown,' -'by. th 6 following figures/.of'jtho .number ;df colonial .coins j;.-;,'.'/./- '-:;':. : ,:' ; '-!r;i ; -/',:,..;■.:. 1907./ '<•,': 1908. " SUver -'~. v.J;':; :■ ..V. £18,392,687 " £9,610,829 Bronze .v..Jii.'..; 2,600,000 -99 000 Nickel.;'/:.;:. V..;:: 2,076,848 ■-. '■ 12,817 152 Aluminium !■/;; ...,: ,8,202,699 . :;12,134 ) 068 Tho totaljlnumbqr 6f .pieces struck at tho mint during; 1908, includuig colonial coins of all 126,483,042, as compared with ,160,4751,192 in. 1907..,',.:,;, ■ .-; :■• .; "
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 443, 27 February 1909, Page 12
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152FEWER SOVEREIGNS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 443, 27 February 1909, Page 12
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