326 MEXICO. 
TABLE OF THE COINAGE OF MEXICO FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS 
TO THE PRESENT DAY. 
The Mint of the City of Mexico was established ia 
1535, but there are no returns for the first 155 
years, until 1690. If we take the average of 
the coinage of these years to have been $1,- 
000,000, we shall have $155,000,000 
From 1690 to 1803, inclusive, .... 1,353,452,020 
" 1803 to 1821, inclusive, 261,354,022 
« 1822 5,543,254 
" 1823 3,567,821 
" 1824 3,503,880 
« 1825 ........ 6,036,878 
" 1825 to 1831 (on an average three millions per 
annum,) 15,000,000 
« 1831 13,000,000 
" 1832 - - '- - - - - - 12,500,000 
« 1833 12,500,000 
" 1834 12,040,000 
« 1835 12,000,000 
« 1836 12,050,000 
" 1837 11,610,000 
" 1838 to 1843 (averaging twelve millions,) . 60,000,000 
To this must be added the coinage of State mints not 
included in the above : 
Guanajuato, from 1812 to 1826 .... 3,024,194 
Zacatecas " 1810 to 1826 .... 32,108,185 
Guadalaxara, " 1812 to 1826 .... 5,659,159 
Durango, « 1811 to 1826 - .• - . 7,483,626 
Chihuahua, « 1811 to 1814 .... 3,603,660 
Sombrerete, " 1810 to 1811 .... 1,561,249 
All of these for the five years (after 1826) since which 
they have been calculated in the general 'coinage, 60,000,000 
Total $2,068,597,948 
This amount, you will see, is less than it has been made by several 
other writers. 
THE CHURCH OF MEXICO— ITS WEALTH AND 
INFLUENCE. 
The Ch jRch of Mexico is the next and last topic to which I shall direct 
your attention, and I am compelled again to regret the want of an accu- 
rate account of the convents, properties, members, and wealth of the Reli. 
gious Orders in 1842. I diligently sought information from individuals 
who should have been au fait on these subjects, yet I could gain from 
