Within the space of a few months the price of the silver dollar has run from £90 to 980 cash und the prospects are of a further rise. If we remember aright the dollar has not brought as much cash for the past ten years, And the causes of this sudden fluctuation are not hard to seek. The old cash pieces containing, they say, more metal in actual value than the face value calls for, have been melted down in large numbers. And on the other hand the market has been flooded with cheap ten-cash pieces. Whereas only a few yours ago there were no small pieces of silver in circulation in the interior, and no ten-cent. cash pieces, and the silver dollar changed into cash pieces only, now with the advent of both small silver and ten-cash pieces the cash is harder to get hold of than it was then. Certainly it does not take a prophet or the son of a prophet to foresee that, unless some drastic remedy is applied, there will be a panic in the Chinese money market before long. 7
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