Valics; Or, The Science of ValueG. Reed, 1900 - 248 Seiten |
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5-franc avoirdupois pound bimetallism British bronze coins bullion called coinage commodity compared contains copper currency debts denarius equal exactly exchange fluctuate franc French gold and silver gold coin gold dollar gold money gold monometallism gold standard grains of pure grammes half dollar indebtedness industrious kilo kran labor legal tender libra mankind means metal metric system milreis monetary money unit monometallism nickel one-half paper money payment peso pfund piece Political Economy pound avoirdupois pound sterling price or relative purchasing power pure gold pure silver ratio relative strength relative value represented by Diagram rouble rupee salt Science of Value shekel silver coins silver dollar soluble sovereign Spanish Spanish dollar specific gravity standard gold standard solution substance tael thing tion token coins trade treasury troy ounce true U. S. gold U. S. money value of money wheat word worth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 190 - ... legal tender at their nominal value for any amount not exceeding five dollars in any one payment.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 142 - I done: when I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them ; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.