There has been much misrepresentation about the manner in which the act of 1873 was passed ... continually reiterated by the advocates of free coinage at a ratio of 16 to 1, and incorporated ...

The characters in Oz, like the Tin Man and Scarecrow, represent different political figures and issues from the time of the ...

except to reenact the act of 1873, which made the "gold dollar the unit of value," and took away from silver the privilege of free coinage. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 (State Coinage) does not allow the states ... Congress lacked the power to act. In fact, both those who spoke for and those who spoke against the proposed language ...

but due to the Mint Act of 1873, which increased the weight of silver coinage, most were melted before they could enter ...

No State shall...coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.... The prohibition on the states to create any form of money signaled the ...

That’s because the penny, alone among America’s circulating currency, retains the original monetary metal — specie — that the Founders’ generation assigned to it in the Coinage Act of 1792. That’s the ...

Coinage is a major source of evidence for the study of the ancient world but is often hard for those studying and teaching ancient history to grasp. Each volume in the series provides a concise ...

Medieval European Coinage, a British Academy Research Project, is a major international reference series for medieval historians, numismatists and archaeologists which considers the European coinage ...

The gold standard fixes the value of a nation’s currency to a particular weight of gold as a means of controlling the amount of money in circulation and achieving price stability. The gold ...

I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. Janet Godwin, CEO of ACT, recently announced changes to the ACT test. Beginning April 2025, there will be more time per question.