Money and the Mechanism of ExchangeH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 349 páginas |
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... sovereigns ? In America the questions are still more important and pressing , involving the return to specie payments , the future regulation of the paper currency , its partial replacement by coin , and the exact size and character of ...
... sovereigns ? In America the questions are still more important and pressing , involving the return to specie payments , the future regulation of the paper currency , its partial replacement by coin , and the exact size and character of ...
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... sovereigns . Among other articles of ornament or of special value used as currency , may be mentioned yellow amber , engraved stones , such as the Egyptian scarabæi , and tusks of ivory . Currency in the Agricultural State . Many ...
... sovereigns . Among other articles of ornament or of special value used as currency , may be mentioned yellow amber , engraved stones , such as the Egyptian scarabæi , and tusks of ivory . Currency in the Agricultural State . Many ...
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... sovereign , which is much superior to the shield and wreaths . I think , however , that the time has come for a general improvement in our coins . Historical Coins . Some states have utilized their coins as monuments of important events ...
... sovereign , which is much superior to the shield and wreaths . I think , however , that the time has come for a general improvement in our coins . Historical Coins . Some states have utilized their coins as monuments of important events ...
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... sovereigns and shillings at their own risk and profit . He held that just as people go by preference to the grocer who sells good tea , and to the baker whose loaves are sound and of full weight , so the honest and successful coiner ...
... sovereigns and shillings at their own risk and profit . He held that just as people go by preference to the grocer who sells good tea , and to the baker whose loaves are sound and of full weight , so the honest and successful coiner ...
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... sovereign , as our standard . It is only requisite that every contract expressed in money shall enable us to ascertain exactly how much standard gold is due from one person to another . M. Chevalier and some other continental economists ...
... sovereign , as our standard . It is only requisite that every contract expressed in money shall enable us to ascertain exactly how much standard gold is due from one person to another . M. Chevalier and some other continental economists ...
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adopted alloy amount arise average balance Bank of England bank-notes bankers barter bills Boulton and Watt bronze bullion cash cent centimes CHAPTER Cheque and Clearing Cheque Bank circulation Clearing House clearing system coinage commodities convenient copper debt decimal demand deposit depreciated dollar double standard employed English exactly exist foreign France French German gold and silver gold coins grains grams Gresham's Law inconveniences inconvertible interest issued kind legal tender less London London Clearing House loss measure of value medium of exchange ment merchants metallic currency metallic money metallic value method millions money of account nations nominal value ounce paid paper currency paper money payment pence penny person pound pound sterling principal profit quantity ratio receive representative money reserve seignorage shilling silver coin sovereign standard of value tion token coins token money trade transactions unit of value weight Wolowski
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