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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1922: Including Report on the Production of the Precious Metals During the Calendar Year 1921 Receipts of purchased silver were again very large, the total of ounces including ounces of Pittman Act silver costing $1 per ounce. The average cost of other pur chased Silver was per fine ounce, its total cost being the silver received for repayment to the depositors thereof in bars bearing the Government stamp totaled fine ounces; the United States silver coin received for recoinage totaled fine ounces, with recoinage value of silver deposited in trust by other Governments totaled fine ounces; the transfers of silver between mint service offices totaled fine ounces, making an aggregate quantity of silver handled by the mint service during the fiscal year 1922 of fine ounces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.