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
They are only means through which real reserves of standard coin are distributed.
From Banking by William A. Scott
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
O thou standard coin from the mint of love! the treachery of misfortune has brought a strange accident upon me, and the bow of destiny has let fly an unpropitious arrow upon my feeble target.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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