BANK STATISTICS. [Compiled for the Bankers' Magazine from the official Reports.] Bank of the State of Missouri and its Five Branches. Dividend for the six months ending 31 December, 51 per cent., of which is payable to the State and 5 per cent. to the stockholders. Total Resources, $8,343,824 $7,971,348 $7,929,493 $7,995,910 The over issue by the Schuylkill Bank amounted to $1,318,500, which was assumed by the Bank of Kentucky; all of which has been liquidated except $36,500. LIABILITIES. Capital stock, Bank of Louisville and Two Branches. Jan. 1946. Jan. 1847. Jan. 1848. Jan. 1849. $1,082,100 $1,032,000 $1,050,000 $1,080,000 Circulation, 1,024,227 939,822 1,126,328 1,195,081 COUNTRY BANKS OF MARYLAND, JAN. 1, 1849. Prepared for our February No. but excluded by the press of other matter. In addition to the above, there are the following country banks whose returns we have not received. Capital. $125,430 150,000 60,000 135,000 Total Bank Capital of Maryland, $8,930,742. STATISTICS OF THE COINAGE. From "A Manual of Gold and Silver Coins of all Nations; showing their History and Legal Basis, and their Actual Weight, Fineness and Value, chiefly from Original and Recent Assays. By J. R. Eckfeldt and William E. Du Bois, Assayers of the Mint of the U. S. Illustrated by numerous engravings of Coins." The foregoing returns for 1839 to 1841, do not include the coinage at the mints of Cuzco and Arequipa. At the former, the annual amount is supposed to be about one million of dollars-one-third of which is gold: at the latter, the amount in 1838, was near one million, but does not now reach $100,000 annually. The largest annual coinage in Peru, in the past century, was, of gold, in 1758, $1,170,000; of silver, in 1794, $5,304,000. The largest amount of gold coined, for many years, was in 1810, $865,000; of silver, in 1817, $535,000. 7111 1933, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837 703,120 122,944 148,512 99,824 80,240 184,144 88,000 198,000 1,815 1,897 1,898 1,997 1,947,000 2,070,000 2,268,000 The largest gold coinage for many years past, was in 1805, $785,000; of silver, in 1796, $4,274,000. 528 COINAGE OF GREAT BRITAIN. The gold coinage, for some years previous to the monetary law of 1816, was nearly in a state of suspension; in the three years of 1809, 1810, and 1811, the amount was about £300,000, annually, and in 1813, £520,000. In the three years following, there was no gold coined. There was no silver coinage, except Bank tokens, from 1788 to 1815. The following tables commence with the year 1816, and extend to 1840, inclusive.* The copper coinage from 1816 to 1836, was £180,107. The largest annual amount of gold coinage was in 1821, when it reached the prodigious sum of £9,520,758, equal to $46,270,000. In 1819, there was only the sum of £3,574. No gold was coined in 1816 and 1840. The largest amount in silver was in 1817, £2,436.298, equal to $10,722,000. In the three years of 1830, 1832, and 1833, the annual sum was only about £150. The variation in the yearly amount of labor is probably as great as at any mint in the world. The following table shows the total amount of coinage in pieces, from 1816 to 1840. *NOTE. We find in the "British Almanac and Companion, for 1949," a statement of the Coinage in Great Britain to 1847, inclusive, showing the following results.[Ed. B. M.] £2,716,000 £221,700 Total, Average for 11 years, ending 1847, £2,937,700 Your Coinage of the State of Mencies from 1800 70 1837 eur ante p 520-5217553 |