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Table of Contents

Preface to Fourth Edition

Preface to First Edition

Part I The United States, 1792-1873

I.I The Arguments of Bimetallists and Monometallists

I.II The Silver Period, 1792-1834

I.III Cause of the Change in the Relative Values of Gold and Silver, 1780-1820

I.IV Change of the Legal Ratio by the Act of 1834

I.V The Gold Discoveries and the Act of 1853

I.VI The Gold Standard, 1853-1873

I.VII The Demonetization of Silver

Part II The Late Fall in the Value of Silver

II.VIII The Production of Gold since 1850

II.IX India and the East

II.X Germany Displaces Silver with Gold

II.XI France and the Latin Union

II.XII Cause of the Late Fall in the Value of Silver

II.XIII The Continued Fall in the Value of Silver since 1885

Part III The United States since 1873

III.XIV Silver Legislation in 1878

III.XV Operation of the Act of 1878

III.XVI Act of 1890

III.XVII Cessation of Silver Purchases, 1893

Appendices

Appendix I Production of Gold and Silver in the World

Appendix II Relative Values of Gold and Silver

Appendix III.

Appendix IV Coinage Laws

Appendix V Coinage Statistics

Appendix VI.

Appendix VII.

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Laughlin, J. Laurence

(1850-1933)

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First Pub. Date

1885

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New York: D. Appleton and Co.

Pub. Date

1898

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Appendix VII

Consumption of the Precious Metals in the Arts.

App.VII.1

Statistics on this point are very unsatisfactory and clearly incomplete. The Director of the Mint gives the following table, which is the most recent:

The World's Industrial Consumption of Gold and Silver in 1895.

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