gold basis
Americannoun
noun
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Britain's gold standard tinkerers soon recalled that King Croesus of ancient Lydia was reputedly the first monarch to put the coin of his realm on a gold basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India, signed a decree in Simla taking the rupee off a gold basis with the pound.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a Wall Streeter with little to do except swap stories was rumoring that Lloyd's of London has wagered one to three that within six months the U. S. would abandon the gold basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oilman Sokolnikov, as Soviet Commissar for Finance, was famed as the financier who put Russian currency on a gold basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gimme quinine, hell, a gold basis, and capital punishment!
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
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