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With free coinage in these conditions no gold coins would be minted and all the money of the United States would be reduced in value to the sole silver standard, and gold would be hoarded and exported.
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Sherman warns that free coinage under certain conditions would lead to the devaluation of U.S. currency to a silver standard.
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