gold basis

How to use gold basis in a sentence

• At the present time, certainly, no thought has ever occurred to Germans that they would not go back to a gold basis.

  Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur Phillips

• The currency of Mexico is now established on the gold basis.

  Mexico | Charles Reginald Enock

• An advocate of a gold basis snorted derisively that silver could be mined profitably at eighteen cents an ounce.

  The Terms of Surrender | Louis Tracy

• In other words the gold basis of the country's deposit credits amounted to 4.27 percent.

  Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII | Various

• We heard nothing in those days of greenbacks, silver coinage, or a gold basis.

  Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton