recoinage

Listen to Jacques Barzun: The fallacy behind perpetual recoinage ... is to suppose that words must describe instead of stand for and evoke.

Archive 2006-03-01 Ann Althouse 2006

Since the late recoinage of the gold, however, it is believed to have been a good deal under-rated.

I. Book IV. Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System 1909

The table of values for foreign coins contained in the proclamation was prepared by Sir Isaac Newton, who had been called to the mint for the purpose of superintending the recoinage of the silver of the realm.

Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay [excerpts] 1901

The expense of this recoinage I am sure we can find maintained by the stockholders of the Bank of England, and for their pay we shall propose

The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890

England, was at this very time addressing himself to the question of a recoinage of the specie of the realm of England.

The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890

Surely, too, as our learned friend has wisely stated, the loss in any recoinage ought, in full justice and honesty, to fall not upon the people of England, but upon the government of England.

The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890

There come into this problem two chief questions: First, who shall pay the expense of the recoinage?

The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890

The French King preferred having recourse to a recoinage.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

A recoinage was ordered, by which the currency was depreciated one-fifth; those who took a thousand pieces of gold or silver to the mint received back an amount of coin of the same nominal value, but only four-fifths of the weight of metal.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

The inconvenience arising from a scarcity of money would have been of very short duration; for the mutilated pieces would have been detained only till they could be told and weighed; they would then have been sent back into circulation, and the recoinage would have taken place gradually and without any perceptible suspension or disturbance of trade.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829