FAC-SIMILE REPRODUCTIONS OF CONTINENTAL CURRENCY.
Trade-Dollars Coined, Exported, Imported, Melted, and Redeemed (Act of March 3, 1887).
| Coined: | ||||
| Mint at Philadelphia | $5,107,024 | |||
| Mint at San Francisco | 26,647,000 | |||
| Mint at Carson | 4,211,400 | |||
| $35,965,924 | ||||
| Exported | 28,778,862 | |||
| Imported | 1,706,020 | |||
| Net export | 27,072,842 | |||
| 8,893,082 | ||||
| Melted: | ||||
| As bullion. | { Previous to Redemption Act | $915,346 | ||
| { Excluded from redemption (mutilated pieces, etc.) | 4,113 | |||
| 919,459 | ||||
| Redeemed. | { Mint at Philadelphia | 3,427,369 | ||
| { Mint at San Francisco | 764,263 | |||
| { Mint at New Orleans | 1,871 | |||
| { Assay office at New York | 3,495,533 | |||
| Total redeemed | 7,689,036 | |||
| Total melted | 8,608,495 | |||
| Not accounted for and not presented for redemption; employed in the arts; specimen pieces in the hands of coin collectors, carried out by emigrants, and in miscellaneous deposits of coin remelted at mints, etc. | $284,587 | |||
Gross Profits on Silver Coinage in 1887.
The seignorage or immediate gross profit on the coinage of silver dollars—that is, the difference between the cost of the bullion and the nominal value of the coins—during the fiscal year 1887, was $7,923,558.61.
The seignorage on subsidiary coin manufactured during the year was $31,704.94, of which $1,130.65 was gained from the recoinage of old subsidiary coins in the Treasury.
The total seignorage on the silver coinage during the fiscal year was $7,955,263.55.
As stated in last fiscal report, the balance of silver profits remaining in the coinage mints on the 1st July, 1886, amounted to $553,201.44.
Adding to this the seignorage of the year, the total gross silver profits to be accounted for by the mints is $8,508,464.99.