NINTH

ANNUAL REPORT

OF

THE DEPUTY MASTER OF THE MINT.

1878.

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.

QUIN

DROIT

LONDON:

PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE,
PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

1879.

[C.-2319.]

Price 5d.

Part of Vic. 21, 1878-9

No. I.-MEMORANDUM by the Superintendent of the Operative De-

partment

33

No. II.-MEMORANDUM by the Chemist of the Mint

37

No. III.—GENERAL ACCOUNT of Expenses and Receipts of the Mint for

the year to 31st December 1878

41

No. IV.-SILVER COINAGE ACCOUNT (including worn Silver Coin ex-

changed) for the year to 31st December 1878

42

No. V. COPPER (BRONZE) COINAGE ACCOUNT for the year to 31st

December 1878

43

No. VI.-Statement of Consolidated Fund Advances for the Purchase of

Bullion, and of Repayments to the Exchequer in respect of the same,

from 1837 to 1878

44

No. VII.-Statement of Moneys coined, &c. in the last ten years

45

No. VIII.-Statement of Bronze coin issued to 31st December 1878

48

No. IX.--Correspondence respecting the Supply of Silver and Bronze

Coinage to the Colonies

48

No. X.-Verdict of the Jury of the Goldsmiths' Company at the Trial

of the Pyx held on the 10th of July 1878

No. XI.-Report of the Deputy Master of the Sydney Branch of the

Royal Mint for the year 1878

No. XII. Report of the Deputy Master of the Melbourne Branch of

the Royal Mint for the year 1878

No. XIII.-Report of the Commissioners appointed to represent Her

Majesty's Government at the Monetary Conference held in Paris in

August 1878

No. XIV.-Monetary Convention between France, Belgium, Italy,
Switzerland, and Greece, signed at Paris on the 5th of November

NINTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF

THE DEPUTY MASTER OF THE MINT.

SIR,
I HAVE the honour to submit, for the consideration of the
Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, my Ninth
Annual Report on the Royal Mint.

In consequence of the continued depression of trade, the demand for coin during the year 1878 has again been below the average, and for the first time since 1870 the Mint has been able itself to meet all demands for imperial coin, and to undertake the execution of the Colonial coinages required, without having recourse to contracts with private firms. It is unnecessary to state that even the limited amount of work devolving upon it has been sufficient to keep the machinery of the Department in constant occupation.

The coins struck during the year 1878 were of twenty-two Coinages exedifferent denominations, namely :—

cuted during the year.

Five Cents.

L 596.

Wt. 903.

A 2