 | William Stanley Jevons - Exchange - 1875 - 376 pages
...from the ordinary stamped bars and ingots of bullion. I should prefer, therefore, to say, coins are ingots of which the weight and fineness are certified...designs impressed upon the surfaces of the metal. Various Forms of Coins. From time to time coins have been manufactured in very many forms, although... | |
 | James Harvey (of Liverpool.) - Currency question - 1877 - 268 pages
...money, • withdrawing them from the category of commodities. Mi-. Jevons's definition is, " Coins are ingots, of which the weight and fineness are certified by the integrity of designs upon the surfaces of the metals." This, too, is imperfect. The sovereign, moreover, is deficient in... | |
 | James Goulton Constable - 1880 - 178 pages
...government mark, which shows unmistakably at a glance what its value is. Jevons says :— " Coins are ingots, of ' which the weight and fineness are certified...designs impressed upon the surfaces of the metal." The invention of coining dates back from a good long time. The first coin that ever was made was a... | |
 | 1880 - 524 pages
...authority, though they raay have borne some Btainp or impress of their value. By coined may be understood ingots, of which the weight and fineness are certified...of designs impressed upon the surfaces of the metal (Prof. Jevons, "Money"', p. 57). The first mention in the liible, after the Flood, of uncoined money... | |
 | 1880 - 478 pages
...authority, though they may have borne some stamp or impress of their value. By coined may be understood ingots, of which the weight and fineness are certified...integrity of designs impressed upon the surfaces of the mettkl (Prof. Jevons, "Money", p. 67). The first mention in the Bible, after the Flood, of uncoined... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1885 - 244 pages
...weigh five ounces, and remembering the widelyreceived definition of coins which describes them as " ingots of which the " weight and fineness are certified...designs impressed " upon the surfaces of the metal," the question naturally presents itself : What is the difference between such a gold coin as the double-eagle,... | |
 | Gaius - 1890 - 718 pages
...Money, ch. 9). The pieces of which a currency by weight consists are not properly coins, for coins are ingots of which the weight and fineness are certified by the integrity of the designs impressed upon the surfaces of the metal (ibid. ch. 7). Money is legal tender. (Mill, Pol.... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 804 pages
...handsome circular pieces which we know as coins were evolved. But these are still defined by Jevons as " ingots, of which the weight and fineness are certified by the integrity of the designs impressed upon the surface of the metal." The stamping of the bits of metal has always... | |
 | United States. Department of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1897 - 1002 pages
...coinage, which serves as an appropriate introduction to them. THEORY AND HISTORY OF COINAGE.1 Coins are pieces of money of a fixed weight, stamped by the...weight and fineness are certified by the integrity of debigns impressed on the surfaces of the metal." Their value may be represented by the material of... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - Economics - 1897 - 520 pages
...need to resort to weighing in order to avoid being cheated. Professor Jevons has defined coins as " ingots of which the weight and fineness are certified by the integrity of designs impressed upon the surface of the metal." Free coinage of any metal exists whenever any owner of bullion has the right... | |
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There is nothing in this definition to distinguish coins from Sycee silver, or from the ordinary stamped bars and ingots of bullion. I should prefer, therefore, to say, coins are ingots of which the weight and fineness are certified by the integrity of... 
