Ill 



Prussia, 20 years. 



39,006,966 



Austria, 15 years. 



The following is a statement of the amount paid to customers at 

 the mint, since the commencement of the coinage under the new law, 

 creating a seniorage on the silver currency, with the denominations 

 and ratio per cent, on the value, up to January 1, 1854. 



$6,347,772 



100. 



As an enormous amount of 3 cent pieces was coined and issued 

 immediately antecedent to the above issue, and as the mint has been 

 occupied for years upon copper, it may be supposed that the demands 

 for these coins have been supplied. 



A new ratio, including the whole of the 3 cents, and 5 years of 

 the copper coinage, will give the following result. 



