Gold and Debt: An American Hand-book of Finance, with Over Eighty Tables and Diagrams Illustrative of the Following Subjects: the Dollar and Other Units; Paper Money in the United States and Europe; Gold and Silver in the United States and Europe; Suspensions of Specie Payments; the Era of Gold; Values of the Precious Metals; the Era of Debt; the Rise and Fall of Prices; Also, a Digest of the Monetary Laws of the United States

S.C. Griggs, 1877 - Finance - 270 pages

Diagram showing the course of prices of commodities from	13

THE DOLLAR AND OTHER UNITS	15

Paper money in Europe	21

Diagram showing the course of relative values from 1840	25

Great banks of Europe	38

Suspensions in the United States	53

Change from a silver to a gold currency in the United States	55

Austria	59

Amount of coin in the United States 1854 to 1876	140

Table of the rise in average prices from 1849 to 1854	142

Amendment to Pacific Railroad Act of July 2 1864 194	146

Agencies at work toward a new financial era	147

Table of amount of each form of obligation of the United	152

Estimated number of each class of banks in the United	154

Imports and exports of merchandise and specie each year	159

114	161

Table of the relative legal values of gold and silver	62

Table of approximate amount of coin in each country	69

Relative values of gold and silver in the United States	77

PAPER MONEY AND COIN IN THE UNITED STATES	78

137	85

PROGRESS OF THE	92

Table of the product in the various quarters of the globe	102

Report of the British Parliamentary Commission of 1876	104

Annual consumption of gold in the artsTable	109

THE ERA OF DEBT	115

Traffic has nearly quadrupled in twentyfive years	117

Aggregate of funded debts in the world	122

Increase of bank clearings in the United States	124

The ratio of national revenue to the total volume of money	126

Annual movement of silver to Asia	127

Lower rates of interest the necessary consequence of previous	133

MONETARY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES	165

Half dollars their legal weights and values 171	171

57	182

United States notes made legaltender for all debts	190

Fractional currency	200

Obtaining and issuing circulating notes	214

Regulation of the banking business 202	222

Dissolution and receivership	235

Striking illustration of the above rule in the proportions	243

Taxes on circulating notes	244

Interest laws of the States	254

114 115	256

60	257

Monetary Units of all Countries and the declared	264

34 35	266

Title	Gold and Debt: An American Hand-book of Finance, with Over Eighty Tables and Diagrams Illustrative of the Following Subjects: the Dollar and Other Units; Paper Money in the United States and Europe; Gold and Silver in the United States and Europe; Suspensions of Specie Payments; the Era of Gold ...
Author	William Lyman Fawcett
Edition	2
Publisher	S.C. Griggs, 1877
Original from	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Digitized	10 Aug 2016
Length	270 pages

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