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<p>[QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 7894516, member: 59677"]They circulated in the US long after 1857. The coinage act made them no longer legal tender for taxes and duties. And they could not be paid out. </p><p><br /></p><p>Foreign coins could be bought in at the mints, assay offices, and land offices but at bullion values and they were sent to be refined and recoined as Federal money. Prior to 1857, they would just have been paid back out.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coinage act (<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=011/llsl011.db&recNum=184" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=011/llsl011.db&recNum=184" rel="nofollow">http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=011/llsl011.db&recNum=184</a>) specifically (de)valued the Mexican dollar, 2 reales as 20c instead of the previous 25c.</p><p><br /></p><p>The director of the mint was instructed to provide value equivalents for coins commonly in circulation. You can see these tables in the annual reports into the 191xs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 7894516, member: 59677"]They circulated in the US long after 1857. The coinage act made them no longer legal tender for taxes and duties. And they could not be paid out. Foreign coins could be bought in at the mints, assay offices, and land offices but at bullion values and they were sent to be refined and recoined as Federal money. Prior to 1857, they would just have been paid back out. The coinage act ([URL]http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=011/llsl011.db&recNum=184[/URL]) specifically (de)valued the Mexican dollar, 2 reales as 20c instead of the previous 25c. The director of the mint was instructed to provide value equivalents for coins commonly in circulation. You can see these tables in the annual reports into the 191xs.[/QUOTE]
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