, 000 , o r n e a r l y 1 , 184 , 000 p o u n d s , a v o i r d u p o i s , o f s i l v e r , a n d 3 , 500 p o u n d s , a v o i r d u p o i s , o f g o l d . F r o m 1690 t o 1803 — 1,330,772,093 were coined in the only mint of Mexico; while, from the discovery of New Spain until its independence, about $2,028,000,000, or two-fifths of all the precious metals which the whole of the New World has supplied during the same period, were furnished by Mexico alone.
It appears from these data that the exhaustion of the mines of Mexico is contradicted by the geognostic facts of the country, and as we shall hereafter show, by the recent issues of Mexican mints. The mint of Zacatecas, alone, during the revolutionary epoch, from 1811 to 1833, struck more than $66,332,766, and, in the eleven last years of this period, from four to five millions of dollars were coined by it every year uninterruptedly.