{"newspaper_name": "Mobile register and journal.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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THE MINT.-The United States have three hints for the coinage of money. One at Phlade phia, one in North Carolina, and the other at New Orrans, and although the two latter called hints. yet they may be more justly considered as Branches of the Parent Institution at Philadelphia, established in that city immediately after the government established The coining of money IS not generally understood, and the Philadelphia Chronicle has been some pains 10 collect account of the pro- cess "Bulion is brought to the Mint in every form magamatons from the ore, bars, plate, jewelry, and foreign coin. All these present a great varie- ty as to quality The Assayer brings this heleroge- neous mass into d proper condition and fneness for coining. and returns lbe metal in ingots small bars. These bars, or ingots. then anneaed to soften them for rolng when they passed through the rolling machine worked by Il steam engine, and out long thn strips-of the width and thick ness most convenient for use. In order to reduce strips of metal to the proper size for the press they are drawn through nicely graduated "drawing dies. ,. In the next place, they passed through the cut ting press, which is also moved by steam, and pieces of the true size are cut out. The punch moves so rapidly that one hundred and sixty pieces, an average, are cut out in d minute. The pieces thus prepared are next put into the milling machine, in which the edge, 10 afford protection the surface of the coin, is forced up. In this machine, hun dred and twenty half dollars, or five hundred and sixty half dimes can be miled in Il minute. The pieces of metal thus prepared then tested 10

 their weight, and if found correct, again soften ed for the dies. The stamping machine is moved, also, by steam power. The pieces are put into an

 inclined tube at one side of the machine, from which they reach the coning dies in regular order. receive the impression, and rail into box below-upoQ, the opposite sde-a perfect coin, ready for circulation. The coinag presses of various sizes, to suit the various denominations of coin. The usual speed of striking is sixty pieces per minute for the half dol lar seventy five for the quarter, and ninety for the dime. The Mint, with Il few additional hands. is competent to coin ten millions, half gold and half silver, annually"