Other wellinformed sources place theamount at $15.000.000. No one. I believe. goes above this latter sum. We all know that there were within a fraction of$36.000. 000 coined originally. We all know further that these coins were designed in the beginning wholly for the export trade. and we are morally certain that a very large proportion of them were absorbed by China and other Asiatic countries. But what proportion thus found their way out of the country can only be conjectured. For the purposes of this argument let us take the estimate of the Director of the Mint as our guide and basis.