A Treatise on Coins, Currency, and Banking: With Observations on the Bank Act of 1844 and on the Reports of the Committees of the House of Lords and of the House of Commons on the Bank ActsLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858 - 421 sider |
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Side 23
... gives the following account of the coin in 1695 : - " We had two sorts of coin , the one was milled and could not be practised on , but the other was not so , and was subject to clipping , and in a course of some years the old money was ...
... gives the following account of the coin in 1695 : - " We had two sorts of coin , the one was milled and could not be practised on , but the other was not so , and was subject to clipping , and in a course of some years the old money was ...
Side 29
... gives some curious in- stances of the extent to which the traffic in coins may be carried , in spite of severe penalties : - " By a decree in the Star Chamber Court on the 7th February , 1636 , seven persons convicted of culling out the ...
... gives some curious in- stances of the extent to which the traffic in coins may be carried , in spite of severe penalties : - " By a decree in the Star Chamber Court on the 7th February , 1636 , seven persons convicted of culling out the ...
Side 32
... the Exchequer admits it ; and the Bank and goldsmiths will take it of him , and give him credit for it , so that he needs keep no more of it by him than he pleases ? " Lord Liverpool ( p . 72 . ) : - 32 COINS AND CURRENCY . 93.
... the Exchequer admits it ; and the Bank and goldsmiths will take it of him , and give him credit for it , so that he needs keep no more of it by him than he pleases ? " Lord Liverpool ( p . 72 . ) : - 32 COINS AND CURRENCY . 93.
Side 39
... gives this opinion of Mr. Lowndes , attributing so much to the " vexation " and " consent " of the common people , without offering any other solution ; and in the following extracts , he appears himself to have entertained the same ...
... gives this opinion of Mr. Lowndes , attributing so much to the " vexation " and " consent " of the common people , without offering any other solution ; and in the following extracts , he appears himself to have entertained the same ...
Side 44
... gives the instance of the French coinage . Although Adam Smith mentions a small seignorage , yet he says ( p . 380. ) , " If , before the late reformation of the gold coin , there had been a seignorage of five per cent . on the coinage ...
... gives the instance of the French coinage . Although Adam Smith mentions a small seignorage , yet he says ( p . 380. ) , " If , before the late reformation of the gold coin , there had been a seignorage of five per cent . on the coinage ...
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A Treatise on Coins, Currency, and Banking: With Observations on ..., Volum 1 Henry Nicholas Sealy Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1858 |
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A Treatise on Coins, Currency, and Banking: With Observations on ..., Volum 1 Henry Nicholas Sealy Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1858 |
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Adam Smith ancillary coins bank money bank notes Bank of Amsterdam Bank of England banker bearer on demand bills of exchange Burgomasters capital cent circulation coffers coinage commerce Committee consequence considered copper coins crowns debt deposit discount Edition England notes equal established exportation France gold and silver gold coin gold or silver Government Governor and Company guinea holders interest intrinsic value Issue Department legal tender coin livres London Lord Liverpool louis-d'or macoutes manufactures measure of value melted ment mercantile republic merchandise merchants millions observes opinion ounce paid paper money payment pound sterling precious metals principle profit promise promissory notes proportion purchase quantity receipt received regulations securities seignorage shillings silver bullion silver coin silver standard Sir Robert Peel sovereign standard gold standard of value supply supposed tion treasury value of gold vols weight
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Side 14 - Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy ; comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with Housekeeping : As, The Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the Modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting them — A description of the various articles of Furniture, with the nature of their Materials — Duties of Servants — &c.
Side 122 - The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating. Different accidents may sometimes keep them suspended a good deal above it, and sometimes force them down even somewhat below it. But whatever may be the obstacles which hinder them from settling in this center of repose and continuance, they are constantly tending towards it.
Side 4 - Mrs. Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, in which the Elements of that Science are familiarly explained and illustrated by Experiments.
Side 3 - Encyclopaedia of Plants : Comprising the Specific Character, Description, Culture, History, Application in the Arts, and every other desirable Particular respecting all the Plants found in Great Britain.
Side 9 - Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Side 9 - The Cabinet Gazetteer : A Popular Exposition of all the Countries of the World ; their Government, Population, Revenues, Commerce, and Industries ; Agricultural, Manufactured, and Mineral Products ; Religion, Laws, Manners, and Social State : With brief Notices of their History and Antiquities. From the latest Authorities. By the Author of The Cabinet Lawyer.