This section is from the book "Scientific American Reference Book. A Manual for the Office, Household and Shop", by Albert A. Hopkins, A. Russell Bond. Also available from Amazon: Scientific American Reference Book.
[Note. - Population of the United States, June 1, 1904, estimated at 81,752,000; circulation per capita, $30.69.]
Classification. | General Stock of Money in the June 1, 1904. | Held in Treasury as Assets of Gov't.,1 June 1, 1904. | Money in Circulation, June 1, 1904. |
Dollars. | Dollars. | Dollars. | |
Gold coin (including bullion in Treasury).. . . | 1,313,120,868 | 217,592,391 | 644,894,548 |
Gold certificates 2......................................................... | 450,633,929 | ||
Standard silver dollars................................... | 559,422,410 | 22,659,857 | 72,605,727 |
Silver certificates 2......................................................... | 464,156,826 | ||
Subsidary silver................................ | 106,614,930 | 12,035,831 | 94,579.099 |
Treasury notes of 1890.......................... | 13,473,000 | 98,576 | 13,374,424 |
United States notes......................................... | 346,681,016 | 9,376,636 | 337,304,380 |
Currency certificates, act of June 8, 1872 2 . . . | |||
National-bank notes.............................................. | 445,988,565 | 14,257,581 | 431,730,984 |
Total............................ | 2,785,300,789 | 276,020,872 | 2,509,279,917 |
1 This statement of money held in the Treasury as assets of the Government does not include deposits of public money in national-bank depositaries to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, and amounting to $106,849,757.45.
2 For redemption of outstanding certificates an exact equivalent in amount of the appropriate kinds of money is held in the Treasury, and is not included in the account of money eld as assets of the Government.
 
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