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Sometimes even a Mint can be a little low on cash....
RogerB
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The New Orleans Mint report of cash on hand for July 1879 was a little "light" on small change. 
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Love the abbreviation for 1000. I haven’t seen that before.
M - is commonly used for thousand even today in other countries, from the Roman numeral. MM is used for million.
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Ja, the M I know. The M with the horizontal bar is new to me.
They made cents in New Orleans?
My Early Large Cents
No, this is just a report of the cash on hand in the Mint's cashbox on the first day of the new fiscal year. Pretty big cashbox to hold all those silver dollars........
What appears to be a cross bar is a defect in the original.
The report is of cash available for payout by the Cashier. Silver dollars were paid to depositors of silver bullion, so a large reserve was necessary. Bullion deposits might be 100,000 ounces or more. The report covers only the first few months of the first year of dollar manufacture at New Orleans.
Oh, alright, fine. I didn't learn anything.
LOL.
I really enjoy these old records..... The penmanship is awesome... and the content always interesting. Cheers, RickO
These are posted both for their interesting content and to give members a break from the usual run of material....something different.
I guess there's no need for small change if you can just "make" it.
No nickels, still referring to the 5c coin as a half dime!
I am quite certain that those were half dimes, which continued to circulate long after the Mint stopped making them.
Five-cent copper nickel pieces were only made at Philadelphia and circulated largely in the northeast. Silver coins were favored in the south and west.