Mint amounted to £127,458,322, while that of gold reached only £19,333,854. In the succeeding period, 1850-66, when the ratio changed and remained for fifteen or sixteen years in favour of Page 186 gold, the total gold coinage reached £292,416,951, while the total silver coinage was scarcely more than 1 1⁄4 millions (£1,315,532).
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