VALUES OF FOREIGN COINS. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., July 1, 1902. + The "British dollar" has the same legal value as the Mexican dollar in Hongkong, the Straits Settlements, and Labuan. .382 .926 .268 Country. Standard. Monetary Value in terms of U. S. gold dollar. Coins. Ecuador.........Gold ...........Sucre Egypt....... Gold .487 Pound (100 pi- 4.943 Finland..........Gold ........... Mark France......... ............... .193 .193 Mark .238 4.8661⁄2 Drachma........ .193 Gold: 10 sucres ($4.8665). Silver: sucre and divisions. Gold: pound (100 piasters), Gold: 20 marks ($3.859), sterling) and 1⁄2 sovereign Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 drachmas. Silver: 5 diachmas. Gold: 1, 2, 5 and 10 gourdes Silver: gourde and divisions. Pound sterlingt.. 4.8661⁄2 Gold: sovereign (pound 1⁄2, 1, and 21⁄2 florins. Gold: 10 and 20 crowns. Spain Pescta........ .193 Sweden Crown .268 .193 Turkey Gold ......... Piaster.............. .044 500 piasters. Silver: peso and divisions. Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 bolivars. Silver: 5 boli vars. The sovereign is the standard coin of India, but the rupee ($0.3244%) is the money of account, current at 15 to the sovereign. R. E. PRESTON, Acting Director of the Mint. The foregoing estimate by the Director of the Mint, of the values of foreign coins, I hereby proclaim 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 or after July 1, 1902, expressed in any of such metallic currencies. H. A. TAYLOR, Acting Secretary of the Treasury. |