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to  the  silver  dollar,  but  by  July  1906  they  had  depreciated
to  a  value  of  7  cash,  or  112  to  the  dollar,  recovering  at  the
end  of  1906  to  107  to  the  dollar.
Mint  Statistics
The  people  of  China  are  voracious  in  their  consumption
of  cash,  but  it  is  not  easy  to  get  statistics,  the  only  fact
I  can  note  of  earlier  periods  being  that  at  the  beginning  of
the  ninth  century  a.d.  the  quantity  issued  annually  was
135,000,000.  From  Edkins  *  I  give  figures  of  the  quantities ­
  issued  by  the  mints  for  certain  years  of  the  first
century  of  the  present  dynasty.

Shunchih

Kanghi

a.d.  1644
1645
1646
1647
1648
,  1650
,  1652
,  1653
,  1654
,  1655
,  1660
,  1661
,  1666
,  1671
,  1676

71,663,900
443.75i&gt;76o
624,823,960
1,333.384.194
1,449,494,200
1,682,424,510
2,097,632,850
2,521,663,740
2,488,544,460
2,413,878,080
280,394,280
291,584,600
295,879,800
290,475,830
231,365,360

cash  I  Kanghi  20
„  25
„  30
,,  35
„  40
„  45
::  P
„  60
Yungcheng  1
„  4
6
,,  8
,,  9

A.D.  1681
1686
1691
1696
170I
1706
171I
1717
1721
i  1723
,  1726
,  1727
,  1728
,  1730
,  1731

231,398,600
289,936,700
289.925.400
237,063,050
238.065.800
238.075.800
374.933.400
399,167,300
437,325,800
499,200
675,160
723.528.000
746.304.000
757.865.000
1,048,759,660

cash

At  three  periods  of  the  nineteenth  century  we  have
figures  giving  the  issues  of  each  mint.

1800-1830
Fixed,  quota.

1831

1865

Peking
Chihli  ..
Shansi  ..
Shensi  ..
Szechwan
Hunan
Hupeh  ..
Kiangsi
Kiangsu
Chekiang
Fukien
Kwangtung
Kwangsi
Yunnan
Kweichow
Hi

899,856,000
60.666.000
17.472.000
87.360.000
194.127.000
47.880.000
84.000.  000
41.928.000
111.804.000
129.600.000
43.200.000
34.560.000
24.000.  000
179.784.000
94.860.000
1,122,000

—  t
60.666.000
17.472.000
94.584.000
194.127.000
47.880.000
84.000.  000
41.928.000
111.804.000
129.600.000
43.200.000
34.560.000
24.000.  000
5.760.000
4.464.000
1.122.000

1,349,784,000
60,756,840
17.472.000
94,589,040
157,733,333
48.054.000
84.420.000
42,037,992
111,992,052
129,600,000
43.200.000
34.560.000
24,000,000
170,569,080
89,773,200
1,122,000

*  “Chinese  Currency,”  by  J.  Edkins,  Shanghai,  1901.
t  Probably  the  same  as  in  the  period  1800-1830.

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