Great Books of the Western World, Band 39Robert Maynard Hutchins Encyclopædia Britannica, 1952 |
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... silver coin still continues in the same worn and de- graded state as before the reformation of the gold coin . In the market , however , one - and- twenty shillings of this degraded silver coin are still considered as worth a guinea of ...
... silver coin still continues in the same worn and de- graded state as before the reformation of the gold coin . In the market , however , one - and- twenty shillings of this degraded silver coin are still considered as worth a guinea of ...
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... SILVER Before the discovery of the mines of Am- erica , the value of fine gold to fine silver was regulated in the different mints of Europe be- tween the proportions of one to ten and one to twelve ; that is , an ounce of fine gold was ...
... SILVER Before the discovery of the mines of Am- erica , the value of fine gold to fine silver was regulated in the different mints of Europe be- tween the proportions of one to ten and one to twelve ; that is , an ounce of fine gold was ...
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... silver , which takes place only in some countries . Though , in one sense of the word , silver al- ways has been , and probably always will be , much cheaper than gold ; yet in another sense gold may , perhaps , in the present state of ...
... silver , which takes place only in some countries . Though , in one sense of the word , silver al- ways has been , and probably always will be , much cheaper than gold ; yet in another sense gold may , perhaps , in the present state of ...
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Introduction and Plan of the Work | 1 |
Of Treaties of Commerce 233 Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Common | 6 |
That the Division of Labour is limited | 8 |
Urheberrecht | |
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