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slipped into a gold specie standard in 1717 by over-valuing gold at 15+1⁄5 times its weight in silver. It was unique among nations to use gold in conjunction...

certificate holder on demand in gold specie would not be honored. By 1975, Americans could again freely own and trade gold. The United States was still suffering...

of 1834. It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver (specie). The Specie Circular was a reaction to the growing concerns about excessive...

loans by its western branches, beginning in 1818. Failing to provide gold specie from their reserves when presented with their own banknotes for redemption...

The Specie Payment Resumption Act of January 14, 1875 was a law in the United States that restored the nation to the gold standard through the redemption...

milliemes (malleem) in 1916. Then, at the outbreak of World War I, with the gold specie standard being suspended in the UK, the Egyptian pound used a sterling...

The price–specie flow mechanism is a model developed by Scottish economist David Hume (1711–1776) to illustrate how trade imbalances can self-correct and...

was fleeing with large quantities of specie. Halleck stated that Richmond, Virginia bankers estimated specie valued "from six to thirteen millions"...

by the German gold mark at the rate of 3 marks per thaler. Several old books confusingly use the same term Reichsthaler for the specie silver coin as...

Under the gold specie standard, anyone in possession of gold bullion could deposit it at a mint where it would then be processed into gold coins. Less...

the Spanish frigates Thetis and Santa Brigada, which were loaded with gold specie. They were taken by four British frigates who shared the money, each...

the resumption of specie payments, which did not occur until the end of 1878. Once specie again circulated at face value, the gold dollar found no place...

war was hopeless. Breckinridge was put in charge of the $150,000 in gold specie remaining in the Confederate treasury; traveling southward by rail toward...

importantly, due to the "Gold Franc Dispute", where some countries insisted that China pay its Boxer indemnity payments through gold specie instead of the Franc...

York City ran out of gold and silver. They immediately suspended specie payments, and would no longer redeem commercial paper in specie at full face value...

gold rather than in greenbacks. The price of gold on the New York exchange fell to $130 per ounce – the lowest point since the suspension of specie payment...

[ˈʁaɪçsˌtaːlɐ]; modern spelling Reichstaler), or more specifically the Reichsthaler specie, was a standard thaler silver coin introduced by the Holy Roman Empire in...

with gold as a commodity. Money portal Double eagle, one of a variety of U.S. gold coins minted in dollar units at $20.67/ounce Gold standard Specie Payment...

the United Kingdom, there was no return to a gold specie standard, but rather the introduction of a gold bullion standard. This once again formally locked...

Hard money policies support a specie standard, usually gold or silver, typically implemented with representative money. In 1836, when President Andrew...