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And all this, the monometallist tells us, because there has been an excess of silver produced amounting to less than a quarter of a billion in twenty-three years.

From If Not Silver, What? by Bookwalter, John W.

Indeed I do," said I; "he has promised to print my essay on the nebular hypothesis of Professor Lecouvrier as soon as his contract with the monometallist college professors expires.

From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Field, Eugene

Hon. Robert Giffen, the well-known chief of the statistical department of the Board of Trade, London, was long known as the most determined and uncompromising monometallist in England.

From If Not Silver, What? by Bookwalter, John W.

Indeed, every monometallist ought also to be a monoculist.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie

The monometallist, or advocate of the so-called single standard, is disposed to disparage the benefits to be expected, and to magnify the expense of this system.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur