Robert Emmet's insurrection (1803) was the first emphatic protest.
Such evidence, so persuasive and convincing as it is, must ultimately bring all to the conclusion that neither the congress nor the states can make anything but gold or silver coin a tender in payment of debts.
He said the prohibition in the constitution to make anything but gold or silver coin a tender in payment of debts is express and universal.
In view of these facts it will be justly regarded as a grave breach of the public faith to undertake to pay these bonds, principal or interest, in silver coin worth in the market less than the coin received for them.
Whether the debt is ultimately paid in gold or in silver coin is of but little moment compared with the possible reduction of interest one-third by refunding it at such reduced rate.
Nearly all the statesmen of that time believed it was necessary to have a national currency in some form, but there was a part in the country that believed the only true national currency was gold and silver coin.
I said: "The bill reported by the committee on finance thus provides for an immediate resumption of specie payments in silver coin, and thus completes the first and most difficult step of the problem.
Though the sestertius, therefore, was originally a silver coin, its value was estimated in copper.
But that market price is the same whether it is paid in gold or in silver coin.
A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.
Whoever impairs, diminishes or lightens current gold or silver coin, with intent to pass same, is liable to penal servitude for from three to fourteen years (s.
The statute provides that whoever falsely makes or counterfeits any coin resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for any current gold or silver coin of the realm (s.
The statute also makes provision against tendering or uttering false gold or silver coin, which is a misdemeanour, punishable by imprisonment with or without hard labour.
Account for the fact that sulphur waters turn a silver coin black; also for the fact that a silver spoon is blackened by foods (eggs, for example) containing sulphur.
Defn: A silver coinof France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system.
Defn: A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous.
Defn: A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty.
For long the only coin actually minted was this denaro (parvus, parvulus, piccolo or minuto), a silver coin.
The total amount of silver coin not to exceed 10 marks per head of population.
From being the original gold coin of highest denomination, it came to be a silver coin, then a billon coin of the very lowest denomination, as it is to-day.
HALF'-DOLL'AR, a silver coin of the United States, worth 50 cents.
German Empire=about one shilling: a silver coin of Hamburg=about 1s.
Though the sestertius, therefore, was originally a silver coin, its value was estimated in copper.
Sestertius was a silver coin, stamped on one side with Castor and Pollux, and on the opposite with the city.
Victoriatus was a silver coin, half the value of a Denarius.
Denarius was a silver coin, valued at ten asses; that is, fourteen cents and thirty-five hundredths of our money.
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