 | Will Payne - 1904 - 356 pagina’s
...spirit — asked themselves whether a universal collapse was at hand. July came on hot and dry. One day the mints of India were closed to the free coinage of silver. In a week silver dropped nineteen cents an ounce. Wheat declined still further. Stocks were almost unsalable... | |
 | Earl Dean Howard, Joseph French Johnson - 1910 - 546 pagina’s
...Congress which repealed the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman Act of 1890. Just at this time the mints of India were closed to the free coinage of silver, which caused the price of that metal to fall from $.82 to $.67 per ounce within three days. These events... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1914 - 626 pagina’s
...The Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency. Seven vols. London : Wyman, 1913-14. 2. -4™ Act to provide for the Establishment of Federal Reserve...intended as an appeal from the theoretical to the practical — from experts to men of the business world or, to borrow a legal phrase, from a special... | |
 | 1916 - 832 pagina’s
...1877, and in 1878 Austria-Hungary abolished the free coinage of silver. In 1893 after long agitation the mints of India were closed to the free coinage of silver. In 1898 Japan definitely adopted the single gold standard. The following year Russia completed the change... | |
 | Harold Glenn Moulton - 1916 - 830 pagina’s
...1877, and in 1878 Austria-Hungary abolished the free coinage of silver. In 1893 after long agitation the mints of India were closed to the free coinage of silver. In 1898 Japan definitely adopted the single gold standard. The following year Russia completed the change... | |
 | Harold Glenn Moulton - 1921 - 826 pagina’s
...1878 Austria-Hungary abolished (he free coinage of silver. In 1893, after a protracted controversy, the mints of India were closed to the free coinage of silver. And in 1898 Japan definitely adopted the single gold standard. 1 Compare chap. iii, pp. 30-35. Practically... | |
 | James Dysart Magee - 1926 - 492 pagina’s
...boosted the price \ of silver for about a year, then it fell more rapidly than before. In June 1898, the mints of India were closed to the free coinage of silver. This caused a break in the price of silver. The panic of 1893 added to the complication of affairs.... | |
 | John Thom Holdsworth - 1928 - 598 pagina’s
...pieces to be coined. Finally, in 1878, the coinage of these silver pieces was discontinued. In 1893 the mints of India were closed to the free coinage of silver. Japan adopted the single gold standard in 1898. Of the large nations of the world only China clings... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on coinage, weights & measures - 1932 - 620 pagina’s
...1930. It averaged 64.4 cents in the five years preceding 1926, and 56.1 in the three years, 1927-1929. The mints of India were closed to the free coinage of silver in 1893, but continued to operate on government account, and the aggregate absorption of silver by India continued... | |
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Finland adopted the single gold standard in 1877, and in 1878 Austria-Hungary abolished the free coinage of silver. 
