They were sent over to Holland, and there filed and returned and put into circulation--a bimetallic phenomenon that always recurs in a currency containing two differently depreciated elements.
The gold coinage was renewed, and as a safeguard against its future depreciation the existing depreciated coin was cut off from any sapping action upon it by the above restriction as to tender by weight.
At the outset it was met by the patent fact that the depreciated silver coinage had been made the handle or lever, or point d'avantage, in all the operations against gold.
In the greatly depreciated state of the silver coinage--three-fourths of it was said to be base--even the approach of a fair ratio acted prejudicially on gold.
Bimetallic action always substitutes the less for the greater, whether weight or value, the more depreciated for the less, or the depreciated for the perfect standard coin.
It has more resemblance to an over-issued and depreciated paper currency.
The movement began by a coining of the lower denominations of monies on a different and depreciated footing or basis.
What confidence could there be in the depreciated paper after such a measure?
As the state paper was depreciated the shares fell much below par.
The great economic changes which depreciated the value of the king's domain contributed towards the result.
Holding this, Plato saw in the works of fine art but the reflections of reflections, the shows of shows, and depreciated them according to their degree of remoteness from the ideal, typical or sense-transcending existences.
All the debts owing to us would have been paid in the depreciated currency; and, therefore, I believe that England ought to have taken the lead in the introduction of a gold currency abroad.
Loud and resounding protests have been entered against the "dishonesty" of making payments in "depreciated dollars.
Edward Atkinson, in a set speech on the exposition grounds, stated his position clearly: "You have depreciated every crop of cotton you have made at least 12 per cent.
He restored the depreciated stock to its proper value.
The expedition against Ferguson, including the battle at King’s Mountain, did not cost the State, or the United States, the worth of a single Continental dollar depreciated down to eight hundred to one.
Industrial progress had become almost paralyzed; vast quantities of depreciated paper money had to be withdrawn from circulation; and an enormous array of claims for the loss of foreign life and property had rolled up.
The movement in favor of paying off national bonds, not in coin, but in depreciated paper money, which found advocacy in the Democratic platform, was in fact not confined to the ranks of the Democratic party.
Its platform stopped but little short of advocating violence to accomplish the annulment of the reconstruction laws adopted by Congress, and it demanded the payment of a large part of the national debt in depreciated greenbacks.
But was it ever said or thought on such an occasion, that all the bank bills, and all the coined silver, and all the gold in the kingdom, were depreciated 10 per cent?
Coined silver is now wanted here for change, and 1 per cent is given for it by some bankers: are gold and bank notes therefore depreciated 1 per cent.
The notes of most Illinois and Wisconsin banks, based on southern State bonds, having depreciated steadily for several weeks, gold and New York exchange now commanded a premium of twenty per cent.
It is, therefore, strange indeed that, in imitation of monarchical morals of a past day, republican countries should have thought it a wise policy to clothe depreciated money with a nominal value for paying debts.
Now, however, the newspapers were calling attention to an uncommonly ugly phase of the matter, and reminding Congress that what the Government bought with a currency depreciated to less than one per cent.
Indeed, the Bank of France avails itself of every opportunity to relieve its coffers of this depreciated currency.
As contrasted with the dollar of the United States, when expressed in bills of exchange between New York and Paris, the Bank of France note has depreciated nearly 14 per cent.
So far as this was true, they had few important pecuniary contracts with other persons of which they could take advantage by paying in depreciated dollars.
Nominally the gold standard prevails, but depreciated paper is the currency of her commerce.
The gold which the Government holds will suffice to satisfy a few timid ones, and there will be an end of high prices and depreciated currency.
Finally, additional supplies of gold, secured through imports, were useless for ordinary banking purposes because the business of the country was then carried on by means of an inconvertible and depreciated paper currency.
The interest of the customary tenant, therefore, virtually depreciated to the level of that of a leaseholder.
A currency might be depreciated in the first sense when it was actually, through counteracting causes, the opposite (or appreciated) in the second.
Blake, probably William Blake, author of 'Observations on the principles which regulate the course of Exchange and on the present depreciated state of the Currency,' 1810.
It never depreciated by any advantage obtained by the enemy.
I knew an instance where an individual issued too many of his notes, and they became depreciatedin value.
It is an individual act, too, of a depreciated and selfish kind.
Yet it is possible to work out an average rate of wear and tear, say thirty years, so that the value of the whole is annually depreciated by one thirtieth.
Russian monetary system; a much depreciated paper rouble is also in circulation; the rouble is divided into 100 copecks.
I know that very well; but remember, you were a very depreciated stock at that time.
Law is said to have opposed both these projects, but failing in suggesting any other, it was agreed that the notes should be depreciated one-half.
The merchants refused to receive the paper of the Deseret Currency Association with which the Territory was flooded; and its notes were depreciated instantly by more than fifty per cent.
And whilst the depreciated value of domestic product increases the difficulty of raising a considerable revenue by internal taxes, at no former time has there been so much specie, so much redundant unemployed capital in the country.
He admitted its utility and convenience, when used with great sobriety, but he deprecated its tendency to degenerate into a depreciated and irredeemable currency.
The work on the Northern Pacific railroad was suddenly stopped, and the obligations of the company depreciated to almost nothing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depreciated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
