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| | Mint Report for 1886 |
 | | In addition to the amount expended at the mints from the standard silver dollar appropriation, there was expended at the Department, for daily quotations from London by telegraph of the price of silver, the sum of $918, which is the exact amount expended for the same purpose during the preceding fiscal year. |
 | | Up to the 30th October, 1886, a date subsequent to that of this report and while it was in press, the amount of silver dollars thus stored in the post-office building was $20,250,000. |
 | | The coinage of the Mint at San Francisco during the fiscal year 1886 was, gold, 3,991,500 pieces of the value of $27,080,000, against 1,236,500 pieces of the value of $20,857,500, in the preceding fiscal year. |
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