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From house to house, from door to door, uniformed Russian police finecombed the cities of Moscow and Kiev last week, looking for kopecks. Bank officials conferred with mint officials, they agreed that too much Russian small change was disappearing from circulation. Despite all the rigor of Soviet laws designed to keep money in circulation, Russian citizens were up to their old trick of hoarding money, bronze and copper coins in particular...
...Bronze duplicates will be purchasable at the U. S. Mint in Philadelphia...
...Last week at Ivy Hall, home of William Grimsley Wood near Culpepper, Va., assembled 35 Confederate veterans for a reunion. They had no club, no ritual, but mint juleps in frosted silver mugs were served them generously. The password: "Where's Brandy Station?" Alexander Fontaine Rose, 84, of Mosby's Brigade, did some spirited dancing. Oldest veteran: John L. Poe, 92, 49th Virginia Cavalry. Honor guest: Mrs. Eliza ("Mother") Crim, famed Confederate nurse at the Battle of Newmarket...
...years the Chinese mint has been abuilding. Except for the Chinese inscriptions over the door it might be mistaken for the Treasury building at Washington. With a capacity of 40,000 coins per hour, it is said to surpass in speed all other mints whatsoever. Thus a rush order for 3,000,000 silver dollars to bribe a Chinese general could be turned out in 75 hours flat...
Exactly ten years ago Money-Man Clifford Hewitt of Philadelphia went out to China fresh from reorganizing the Philippine mint. Taciturn, he prefers making money to talking about how it is made. But he did talk the Chinese out of coins-with-a-hole. The "World's Champion Mint" will make no "doughnut money." Thus far it has cost...