The Ways and Means of Payment: A Full Analysis of the Credit System, with Its Various Modes of Adjustment |
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actual adjustment adopted agency amount balances Bank of England Bank of Venice bank-notes bankers bills of exchange books of account Britain British coinage cent century circulation coinage coins or bullion commerce commercial paper commodities correspond credit system creditors customers debasement debtors demand denominations deposits depreciation discounted dollar domestic effect employed equal equivalent evil exported extent facility fact fixing the price fluctuations foreign France fund Genoa gold and silver gold or silver important issued legal tender less measure medium of exchange ment merchants minds mischief mode of payment money of account mutual NOTES TO CHAPTER operation ounce paid parties payable pound sterling pound unit precious metals price of gold promissory notes proportion purchase quantity of gold received shillings and pence silver coins sovereign Spanish dollars specie standard tion transactions transfer weight whole