gold basis
Americannoun
noun
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Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India, signed a decree in Simla taking the rupee off a gold basis with the pound.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Britain's immediate money troubles go back to 1925, when to uphold British prestige Winston Spencer Churchill, moon-faced Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, put the pound back on a gold basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
And all this time the soldiers and Government employés were being paid on a gold basis.
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.
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