gold basis
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Anxiously Madrid foresaw that Portugal, by letting her escudo slide with sterling, will be able to offer drink, etc. to thirsty Britons cheaper than Spain, whose peseta is semi-stabilized on a gold basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
The problem therefore is�how soon can the pound get back to par and a gold basis?
From Time Magazine Archive
Though such a movement would have seemed trifling before the lira was stabilized on a gold basis, it loomed ominously, last week, almost seven months after complete stabilization was supposed to have been achieved.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moreover, the Union's House of Assembly passed 78 to 53 last week the Emergency Finance Bill brought in by Finance Minister Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga expressly to keep South Africa's currency on a gold basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great Mississippi valley had been flooded with settlers, railway and steamship threw their millions of bushels on the world's markets, while the gold basis of prices failed to expand in proportion.
From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Skelton, Oscar Douglas
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