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accommodation bills advantage amount of bank-notes average Bank of England bank-notes issued banker Bills of Exchange bound in cloth Britain British bullion capital carat cash centimes circulation coinage Commercial commodity competition consumption countries where gold countries where silver debt demand discount dwts EFFINGHAM WILSON employer export duty fall in value fixed amount fluctuations foreign exchanges France gives gold coin increase indirect taxation instance internal panic kilogramme of gold kilogrammes of silver L'Echo de Paris London manufacturers markets merchants milreis modity nation neatly bound notes ounce particular payment pence English pennyweights Post 8vo pound sterling productive labour profit proportion quantity of standard rate of interest revenue Rio de Janeiro rise in price royal 8vo ROYAL EXCHANGE securities sovereigns specific duty standard gold standard of value supplies of gold taxes trade troy troy weight value in exchange value of gold