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The tendency of late among commercial nations is to the adoption of a single standard of gold and the issue of silver for fractional coin.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “The tendency of late among commercial nations is to the adoption of a single standard of gold and the issue of silver…”
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Sherman observes a trend among nations towards adopting a gold standard for currency.
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