240 GUATIMALA. CHAP. XXV. 



and thirty-six thousand and forty dollars, were re- 

 mitted from London by the house of Goldsmidt 

 and Co., as a part of the first loan ; which sum was 

 recoined and included in the coinage of 1825, and 

 seems to account for the excess of gold coined in 

 that particular year being so far above every other 

 that had preceded it. We have the same au- 

 thority for the fact that about that time the United 

 Mexican Company remitted from London three 

 hundred thousand dollars in gold. 



These amounts were thus nearly equal to the 

 bars and ingots brought to the treasury in those 

 years; and we therefore may rest satisfied that the 

 average annual amount of the produce of the mines 

 in the twenty years from 1810 to 1829 could not 

 exceed, if it amounted to, eleven million dollars. 



In Guatimala, or as it has been recently de- 

 nominated the Republic of Central America, it- 

 appears some small portion of both the metals have 

 been produced and coined into money. Whatever 

 of gold and silver had been collected in Guatimala 

 was included in the returns from Mexico before 

 1820. Since that period a mint has been esta- 

 blished, whose operations may be judged of from 

 the following account, obtained by a late visitor 

 in that country, who, from hi& official situation 

 must have been enabled to procure correct in- 

 formation '. 



1 Thompson's Narrative of a Visit to Guatimala, p. 520. 



