Valics; Or, The Science of ValueG. Reed, 1900 - 248 páginas |
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avoirdupois pound bullion called cents per pound coinage commodity compared copper cost debts denarius double equal exactly exchange fact fluctuate franc gold coin gold dollar gold money gold monometallism gold standard grains grammes human increase industrious kilo labor legal tender libra mankind means metal metric system milreis modity monetary money unit monometallism one-half payment peso pfund piece Political Economy pound avoirdupois pound sterling price or relative purchasing power pure gold pure silver quantity of value ratio relative strength relative value represented by Diagram rouble rupee salt Science of Value sell shekel shows silver coins silver dollar sold by weight soluble Spanish specific gravity standard solution sterling substance tael thing tion token coins trade troy ounce true twice U. S. gold U. S. money unit weight unity Valics value dollars value of money value or price wheat word worth
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Página 192 - ... be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted through international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar, at all times, in the markets and in the payment of debts; and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin.
Página 134 - As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
Página 134 - The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain : for the wicked are not plucked away. Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
Página 135 - And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the Lord.
Página 193 - That the dollar consisting of twenty-five and eight-tenths grains of gold nine-tenths fine, as established by section thirty-five hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be the standard unit of value, and all forms of money issued or coined by the United States shall be maintained at a parity of value with this standard, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain such parity.
Página 190 - ... legal tender at their nominal value for any amount not exceeding five dollars in any one payment.
Página 87 - that which passes freely from hand to hand throughout the community in final discharge of debts and full payment for commodities, being accepted equally without reference to the character or credit of the person who offers it and without the intention of the person who receives it to consume it or apply it to any other use than in turn to tender it to others in discharge of debts or payment for commodities.
Página 193 - An Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes...
Página 135 - And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. 13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD...
Página 191 - ... which coins together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by the United States, of like weight and fineness, shall be a legal tender, at their nominal value, for all debts and dues public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract.