coinage

An international coinage is, again, a prime necessity, which would possess immense commercial advantages in addition to the great saving of trouble it would effect.

opening the mints of the United States to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, with gold,

There is no government coinage whatever.

In Spain, for instance, the Moors kept up a tradition of gold coinage similar to that of Rome, from the eighth to the middle of the thirteenth century.

In the case of Luebeck direct documentary evidence of transactions relating to the introduction of a gold coinage has survived among the archives of that state.

Even before the adoption of a gold coinage by Edward III., England had felt the effect of loss by exchange, owing to the introduction of gold florins by means of the Flemish trade.

The gold crown is a 10-mark piece, is 9/10 fine, and struck at a tale of 139-1/2 pieces to the German pound; charge for coinage, 3 marks per pound of fine gold.

Thereupon Bland, one of the members of the commission, proposed in the House of Representatives the re-establishment of the double standard, at the old ratio of 1:15.988, with free coinage of silver.

The dismemberment of Charlemagne's Empire is followed by a gap in the Venetian coinage, and the series only recommences in the eleventh century.

The first effectual regulation of the silver coinage was made in the ordinance of Charles V. of 22nd February 1542.

It appears to me impossible that the King of France can take a seignorage of 8 per cent upon the coinage.