standard coin
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Poland beginning Jan. 1, 1924, introduced its new gold standard coin, the "zloty," equivalent to the gold French franc.
From Time Magazine Archive
The several new governments set up by the Treaty of Versailles naturally had to have some standard coin, and have thus 'been the source of several new ones.
From Time Magazine Archive
The standard coin is the Spanish dollar, but one will find every variety of European and American money in circulation among them.
From The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by Francis B. Pearson
How the standard coin of different nations came to be of different metals, 16.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier
The coins are capable of being used where large coins, of standard metal, would otherwise be used, or where checks, redeemable in standard coin, would be used.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
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