The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-29
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PENNIES BY THE MILLION.
Holiday Rush for New Coins Will Be
 Met Without Difficulty.
E Fhiladelphia Times.

hiladelphta Times.
 For the first time in a number of years Uncle Sam will be able this year to send cut his supply of new pennies for the holidays without working his employees of the Philadelphia Mint night and day through the months of November and December. Last year, in the overcrowded condition of the old mint, there was something approaching a penny panic, in spite of the overtime work. fhis year, in the new mint, with self-rnotor cleo. tris presses, the holiday demand from all over the land may be met without u ouble
 The Philadelphia mint has always sup piled small coinage-which in Treasury parlance means pennies and 5-cent pieces to all the sub-treasuries in the United States. In no other mint are they. coin ed. There are always plenty of worn pennies in stock at the sub-treasuries, but for some reason or other there Is al ways a rush for new coin during tht holiday season. The big department stores will have them. even though 1t costs more to get them.
 In Philadelphia, New York. Chicago or San Francisco. If merchant IS will ing to take old pennies and mckles, the of express charges, in sums Of $2o or upward. He cannot order directly from the Philadelphia mint, but must place
 deposit at some suo-treasury Tor the amount required. But if the merchant Is not willing to take old stock-and few of them are-he must pay the express cnarges on delivery or send his own wagons to the Philadelphia mint to get the coin.
 The holiday rush for pennies at the Phil adelplia mint began the latter part or last month and will increase from now
 until after the beginning Of the new year. Last year, with thirteen steam power presses in the old mint, the daily coinage of pennies during the Christmas rush was more than 1,0OO,OO0 pennies day. In the new mint there are eleven l.1n frf0 vVnrlyinR on pennies and nickles, They coin more rapidly and are capable Of greater out put than the old machines; -Four more new presses are about ready to De put in operation on the small coinage, ana three more may be added to this be- fore the real rush comes. This, Superin- tendent Boyer believes, will be able 10 keep the output running steadily and smoothly sufficient to meet all demands
 The present output of pennies at the new mint Is little in excess or oOoOoD | day, which is about normal Tor this | time of year. In another month It Will probably exceed 100000 pennies day. When the demand drops to SOO.Oo0 day
 1t is considered rather slow holday pusl- ness The pennies are shipped In pass
 of a0 each, the nickles in bags or *-o
 about half the demand for new pennies | At this time of the year the penny Is
 king in the presses at the Phllaueiphla
 mint.
 The Government buys It's copper discs | for pennies from a Waterbury IConn)
 firm. They are shipped here by the ton and paid for by the pound. visitors 10 | the galleries of the new mint may see | huge trucks filled with them Wheeleu
 about the coining room to feed the ma | chimes. Women with gloved nan1s scooP
 them out of the trucks by the ma nahuL HnIIo ul, | put them into the press ana they Cone come
 out stamped on the side in a snlnlng
 shower From the galleries they are as | bright as new gold.