 | Currency question - 1879 - 956 pages
...or silver is the most convenient currency for the United States. It has already been observed, that, prior to the year 1821, gold and silver generally...United States, which they did in the mint regulation. Silver sometimes commanded a premium for the India trade. But, at no time since the general introduction... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1879 - 998 pages
...or silver is the most convenient currency for the United States. It has already been observed, that, prior to the year 1821, gold and silver generally...United States, which they did in the mint regulation. Silver sometimes commanded a premium for the India trade. But, at no time since the general introduction... | |
 | James Laurence Laughlin - 1885 - 326 pages
...action of this institution. Secretary Ingham, 8 in 1830, reasoning post hoc ergo hoc, observed that, " prior to the year 1821, gold and silver generally...United States which they did in the Mint regulation. . . . But, at no time since the general 1ntroduction of bank paper, has gold been found in general... | |
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... the mint for the expense to which it is now subject, that of coining, merely for the purpose of putting the metal into a form better suited for exportation. It remains to be considered whether gold or silver is the most convenient currency for the... 