International Bi-Metallism

Excerpt from International Bi-Metallism: An Essay Unfortunately, the two principal double-standard systems of the world, have not, and never have had, identical legal ratios. The infinity of contracts which have been entered into for the de livery of the commodities, silver and gold, in differing proportions, or at ratios which mutually exclude each other, under those two money systems, make the task of changing from existing legal ratios to a common ratio, a somewhat formidable one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.