How the standard coin of different nations came to be of different metals, 16.
They are only means through which real reserves of standard coin are distributed.
The standard coin is the Spanish dollar, but one will find every variety of European and American money in circulation among them.
It is as much a standard coin of the realm as the sovereign is of the British Empire.
The beaver-skin was the standard coin of the Hudson Bay territory, its value in our money being fifty cents.
And standard coin may well attain, in greater or less degree, a premium.
The standard coin is the mark, which equals a franc, and which contains ten pennis.
The rupee is the standard coin of British India, and worth about fifty cents.