Monetary Units and Coinage Systems of the Principal Countries of the WorldU.S. Government Printing Office, 1929 - 93 pages |
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20 centavos 25 per cent amount authorized coins bank notes British bullion cent copper cent nickel cent tin cent zinc centavos centesimos centimes circulation COINS Gross weight colonies Composition Grams Grains country of issue currency decree Denomination or face divided into 100 dollar equals face value Fineness filléres francs GOLD COINS Gross Gold or silver Grains Composition United Grains face value Grains Grams Grains Grams Grains Composition Grams Grains face Grams Grains Grams Grams Grains United Gross weight Composition Gross weight Denomination Gross weight Gold Latin Monetary Union legal tender lent of face lent of Grams lepta milreis MINOR COINS Gross monetary law monetary system monetary unit Nickel-copper öre ounce of silver pengö peso piasters pound rupee sandths equiva sandths Grams Grains shilling silver coins contain silver content United Straits dollar Treasury United States Denomination United States dollar United States equiva value in country weight Composition Grams zinc zloty
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Page 14 - ... [Section 3513 enumerates the dime or ten cent piece among the silver coins of the United States.] " SEC. 3585. The gold coins of the United States shall be a legal tender in all payments at their nominal value when not below the standard weight and limit of tolerance provided by law for the single piece, and, when reduced in weight below such standard and tolerance, shall be a legal tender at valuation in proportion to their actual weight.
Page 16 - Treasury notes shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract, and shall be receivable for customs, taxes, and all public dues, and when so received may be reissued.
Page 17 - That whenever and so long as the aggregate amount of United States notes and silver certificates in the general fund of the Treasury shall exceed...
Page 14 - January 18, 1837, on which shall be the devices and superscriptions provided by said act ; which coins, together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by the United States, of like weight and fineness, shall be a legal tender, at their nominal value, for all debts and dues, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract.
Page 9 - That the dollar consisting of twenty-five and eight-tenths grains of gold nine-tenths fine, as established by section thirty-five hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be the standard unit of value, and all forms of money issued or coined by the United States shall be maintained at a parity of value with this standard, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain such parity.
Page 12 - Treasury notes of the Act of July 14, 1890, are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. United States notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt.
Page 14 - And the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase, from time to time, silver bullion, at the market price thereof, not less than two million dollars...
Page 12 - Standard silver dollars are legal tender at their nominal or face value in payment of all debts, public and private, without regard to the amount, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract.
Page 16 - States, and when so redeemed may be re-issued ; but no greater or less amount of such notes shall be outstanding at any time than the cost of the silver bullion, and the standard silver dollars coined therefrom, then held in the Treasury purchased by such notes...
Page 14 - Troy of standard silver, as provided in the act of ... [January 18, 1837] . . . , on which shall be the devices and superscriptions provided by said act; which coins together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by the United States, of like weight and fineness, shall be a legal tender, at their nominal value, for all debts and dues...