VALUES OF FOREIGN COINS
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Washington, July 1, 1909.

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
lire. Silv: 5 lire.

Gold: 5, 10e and 20 yen.
Silver: 10,,20, and 50 sen.

†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.

MARK OF GERMAN EMPIRE,

REDUCED AT CUSTOM HOUSE STANDARD OF

FRANC OF FRANCE, BELGIUM AND SWITZERLAND, ITALIAN LIRA, GRECIAN DRACHMA AND

SPANISH PESETA.