[60 millions in Chinese silver dollars stacked and guarded outside the old Mint building at Fifth and Mission street]

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Local identifier: AAD-3407
Title: [60 millions in Chinese silver dollars stacked and guarded outside the old Mint building at Fifth and Mission street]
Alternative Title: 5th street
Date: 1936 July 14
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Note: Folder: S.F. Mint-Old-Exterior.
Printed on back: "SIXTY MILLIONS IN SILVER DOLLARS--IN ONE PLACE--In the Forty-Nine days, it was prevalent belief elsewhere that gold was to be picked up in the streets of California towns. Well, here's $60,000,000 in Chinese Money, part of it stacked outside near the U.S. Mint at San Francisco. The Chinese silver dollars are worth $24,000,000 in America. They were shipped over in 12,000 boxes. The Huge shipment taxed the storage facilities at the old mint, so part is stacked outside. The coin is heavily guarded. Each box weighs nearly 50 pounds. The shipment is said to be collateral to cover a loan to the Chinese government."
"Acme Photos."
Negative #2702.
LCSH Subjects: Buildings--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Old United States Mint (San Francisco, Calif.)
Subject Name: Old United States Mint (San Francisco, Calif.)
Bibliographic Number: .b10282221
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:143218