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Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, on the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 — John Shaqi

Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, on the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890Jones, John P. (John Percival)

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Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, on the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890

Name: Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, on the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890
Author: Jones, John P. (John Percival)

Jones, John P. (John Percival)

Silver question -- Speeches in Congress

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    B. C. | Ratio.      | Authorities.
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
     1600 | 1 to 13.33  | Inscriptions at Karnak; tribute lists of
          |             |   Thutmosis. (Brandis.)
      708 | 1 to 13.33  | Cuneiform inscriptions on plates found in
          |             |   foundation of Khorsabad.
          | 1 to 13.33  | Ancient Persian coins; gold darics at
          |             |   8.3 grams = 20 silver siglos, at 5.5 grams.
      500 | 1 to 13.00  | Persia. Darius. Egyptian tribute. Herod.
          |             |   III,.95. (Boeckh, page 12.)
      490 | 1 to 12.50  | Sicily. Time of Gelon. "At least" 12.50.
          |             |   (Boeckh, page 44.)
      470 | 1 to 10.00  | Doubtful. Asia Minor. Xerxes's treasure.
          |             |   (Boeckh, page 11.)
      440 | 1 to 13.00  | Herodotus's account of Indian tributes.
          |             |   360 gold talents = 4,680 silver.
      420 | 1 to 10.00  | Asia Minor. Pay of Xenophon's troops in silver
          |             |   darics. (Anab.; Boeckh, page 34.)
      407 | 1 to ----   | Spurious and debased gold coins at Athens.
          |             |   (MacLeod, Polit. Econ., page 476; Boeckh,
          |             |   page 35.)
      400 | 1 to 13.33  | Standard in Asia, according to Xenophon.
      400 | 1 to 12.00  | Standard in Greece according to "Hipparchus";
          |             |   attributed to Plato.
      400 | 1 to 12.00} | Various authorities adduced by Boeckh.
      400 | 1 to 13.50} |
          |             |
          |      {12.00}| Values in Greece from the Peloponnesian war to
  404-336 | 1 to {13.00}|   the time of Alexander, according to hints in
          |      {13.33}|   Greek writers. There were variations under
          |             |   special contracts--unit, the silver drachma.
          |             |
      340 | 1 to 14.00  | Greece. Time of Demosthenese. (Boeckh,
          |             |   page 44.)
  338-326 | 1 to 11.50  | Special contracts in Greece.
  343-323 | 1 to 12.50  | Egypt under the Ptolemies.
      300 | 1 to 10.00  | Greece. Continued depression of gold, caused
          |             |   by great influx under Alexander.
      207 | 1 to 13.70  | Rome. (Boeckh, page 44.) Gold scriptulum
          |             |   arbitrarily fixed at 17.143 for 1.
      100 | 1 to 11.91  | Rome. General rate of gold pound to silver
          |             |   sesterces to date.
    58-49 | 1 to 8.93   | Rome. Continued depression of gold, caused
          |             |   by influx of Cæsar's spoil from Gaul.
          |             |   [N. B.--Cæsar's headquarters were at
          |             |   Aquileia, at the head of the Adriatic,
          |             |   where there was also a gold mine, which
          |             |   at this period became very prolific.]
       50 | 1 to 11.90  | Rome.

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Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, on the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890

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