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Appendix VII: Consumption of the Precious Metals in the Arts. - J. Laurence Laughlin, The History of Bimetallism in the United States [1885]

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The History of Bimetallism in the United States (New York: D. Appleton, 1898). 4th ed.

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Appendix VII

Consumption of the Precious Metals in the Arts.

Statistics on this point are very unsatisfactory and clearly incomplete. The Director of the Mint gives the following table, which is the most recent:

The World's Industrial Consumption of Gold and Silver in 1895.

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