free coinage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of free coinage
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
Example Sentences
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He could order the free coinage of an unlimited amount of silver at a gold ratio of 16-to-1 or any other ratio he chose.
From Time Magazine Archive
The money fight began when Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler of silver-producing Montana offered an amendment to the Glass bill for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16-to-1 to gold.
From Time Magazine Archive
His program included "America for Americans," abolition of the gold standard, a greenback bonus, freedom for the Philippines, abolition of the "chainstore evil" free coinage of silver.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the farm bill Senator Wheeler from silver-producing Montana offered an amendment for 16-to-1 free coinage of the metal.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had favored bimetallism and free coinage in so many debates that the East, where lay the strongholds of the party, distrusted his soundness on the currency question.
From The New Nation by Dodd, William E.
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