The History of Currency, 1252 to 1894: Being an Account of the Gold and Silver Monies and Monetary Standards of Europe and America, Together with an Examination of the Effects of Currency and Exchange Phenomena on Commercial and National Progress and Well-beingG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895 - Počet stran: 431 |
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22 carat adopted alloy April August Austria billon billon money bimetallic bimetallic law Blanc bullion cent century Charles circulation Cologne mark commercial couronne currency Date debasement declared deniers denomination depreciation dollars ducat Écu edict England English equivalence Europe exchange export February Fiorino Florence florin foreign France French Friedrichs d'or Germany gold and silver gold coinage gold coins gold gulden grms Gros groschen grossi Imperial issued January July June kreutzers later Latin Union legal tender lira livres loth louis d'argent louis d'or Lower Saxony Lübeck maravedis mark fine Mark of Gold merchants Mint minted monetary system monies Netherlands November ordinance pfennige Philip piccioli Plakkaats pound precious metals proclamation ratio Reals recoinage reform Reichs thaler Reichstag rijder Saxony seigniorage September silver coins silver money soldi sols Spain Spanish specie standard TABLE Tale per Mark tariff Testoons tion Tournois trade United viejo weight ΙΟ
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Strana 219 - Id. But this high price keeps their gold at home in good plenty, and carries away the Spanish silver into all Europe : so that at home they make their payments in gold, and will not pay in silver without a premium ; upon the coming in of a Plate fleet the premium ceases, or is but small ; but, as their silver goes away and becomes scarce, the premium increases, and is most commonly about six per cent., which, being abated, a guinea becomes worth about 20s.
Strana 245 - Bank and the defendant, the fact of there being an office of discount and deposit of the Bank of the United States...
Strana 225 - Majesty, subsequently revived and made perpetual by a statute of the thirtyninth year of his reign, it is enacted, that no tender in payment of money made in the silver coin of this realm, of any sum exceeding the sum of twenty-five pounds at any one time, shall be reputed in law, or allowed to be a legal tender, within Great Britain or Ireland, for more than, according to its value by weight, after the rate of 5s. 2d. for each ounce of silver.
Strana 152 - as several considerable and advantageous trades cannot be conveniently driven and carried on without the species of money or bullion, and that it is found by experience that they are carried in greatest abundance (as to a common market] to such places as give free liberty for exporting the same, and the better to keep in and increase the current coin of this kingdom, be it enacted...
Strana 152 - ... and that it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons whatsoever to come and go to and from such place or part of the said premises, where any distress for rent shall be impounded and secured as aforesaid, in order to view, appraise, and buy, and also in order to carry off or remove the same on account of the purchaser thereof...
Strana 274 - No settlement of the difficulty is, however, in our opinion, possible without international action. " The remedy which we suggest is essentially international in its character, and its details must be settled in concert with the other Powers concerned. '' It will be sufficient for us to indicate the essential features of the agreement to be arrived at, namely...
Strana 240 - AN ORDINANCE for the establishment of the Mint of the United States of America, and for regulating the value and alloy of coin.
Strana 240 - The subject of removing the deposits had been regularly brought before the Senate by the report of the Secretary of the Treasury. It was one on which we had a right to legislate. We had a right to know why it was done, and how it was done, to either approve or disapprove ; to legislate upon it: to direct the money to be returned, or to be kept anywhere else ; in short, to approve or disapprove what had been done.
Strana ii - The verdict of history," says Mr. Shaw, " on the great problem of the nineteenth century — bimetallism — is clear and crushing and final, and against the evidence of history no gainsaying of theory ought for a moment to stand.