VALUES OF FOREIGN COINS In pursuance of the provisions of section 25 of the act of August 28, 1894, I hereby proclaim the following estimate by the Director of the Mint of the values of foreign coins to be the values of such coins in terms of the money of account of the United States, to be followed in estimating the value of all foreign merchandise exported to the United States on and after July 1, 1909, expressed in any of such metallic currencies. C. D. NORTON, Acting Secretary. NOTE-The coins of silver-standard countries are valued by their pure silver contents, at the average market price of silver for the three months preceding the date of this circular. * Gold standard adopted December 31, 1908, 122 bolivianos equal the pound sterling or Peruvian pound ($4.866.(2 $4.943 (100 piasters) .193 .193 .238 Great Britain. Gold. Pound sterling .193 .965 Gold: pound (100 piasters), 5, 10, 20, and 50 piasters. Silver: 1, 2 5, 10, and 20 piasters. Gold: 20 ma rks ($3.859), 10 marks ($1.93). Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 francs. Silver: 5 francs. Gold: 5, 10, and 20 marks. 4.8662 Gold: Sovereign (pound sterling) and 1⁄2 sovereign. Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 drachmas. Silver: 5 drachmas. Gold: 1, 2, 5, and 10 gourdes. Silver: Gourde and divisions. 4.8662 Gold: sovereign (pound sterling). Silver: rupee and divisions. Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 Gold: 5, 10e and 20 yen. †The sovereign is the standard coin of India, but the rupee ($0.32443) is the current coin, valued at 15 to the sovereign. Seventy-five centigrams fine gold. ? Value in Mexico, $0.498. The current coin of the Straits Settlements is the silver dollar issued on Government account and which has been given a tentative value of $0.5677583. |