gold basis
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Oilman Sokolnikov, as Soviet Commissar for Finance, was famed as the financier who put Russian currency on a gold basis.
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The question at issue was whether to set up the now virtually stabilized paper franc on a gold basis.
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Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India, signed a decree in Simla taking the rupee off a gold basis with the pound.
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But for the Dawes Committee the post-War mark could never have been stabilized on a gold basis.
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Then came the resumption of specie payment, which, in effect, placed the paper money on a gold basis.
From History of the United States by Charles A. (Charles Austin) Beard
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