---------------+------------+--------------- Description. | Pieces. | Value. ---------------+------------+--------------- Gold | 3,724,720 | $22,393,279.00 Silver | 44,231,288 | 34,366,483.75 Minor Coins | 50,166,509 | 943,650.65 ---------------+------------+--------------- Total | 98,122,517 | $57,703,413.40 ---------------+------------+---------------- Total number of Coinage Dies made during the year 1887. Gold coinage 120 Silver coinage 359 Minor coinage 684 Proof coinage 27 Bullion for the Silver Dollar Coinage, 1887. --------------------------------------+---------------+--------------- | Standard | Mode of acquisition. | ounces. | Cost. --------------------------------------+---------------+--------------- Purchases, Treasury Department, | | Bureau of the Mint | 29,018,932.12 | $25,624,487.37 Purchases by mint officers | 282,626.95 | 249,150.73 Partings, bar charges and fractions | 131,783.20 | 114,982.36 +---------------+---------------- Total delivered on purchases | 29,433,342.27 | $25,988,620.46 Balance on hand July 1, 1886 | 3,258,495.66 | 2,960,969.02 +---------------+---------------- Available for coinage of silver | | dollars during the fiscal year 1887 | 32,691,837.93 | $28,949,589.48 --------------------------------------+---------------+---------------- Value of the Gold and Silver (not including re-deposits) received at the Mints and Assay Offices during the fiscal years 1880-1887. --------+------------+------------+------------- Fiscal | | | years. | Gold. | Silver. | Total. --------+------------+------------+------------- 1880 |$ 98,835,096| $34,640,522| $133,475,618 1881 | 130,833,102| 30,791,146| 161,624,248 1882 | 66,756,652| 33,720,491| 100,477,143 1883 | 46,347,106| 36,869,834| 83,216,940 1884 | 46,326,678| 36,520,290| 82,846,968 1885 | 52,894,075| 36,789,774| 89,683,849 1886 | 44,909,749| 35,494,183| 80,403,932 1887 | 68,223,072| 47,756,918| 115,979,990 --------+------------+------------+------------- Silver Coins of the United States.