The next insinuation is, that the Bank has refused specie payments. From LearnThat.org. [http://in-a-sentence.com/Use/sp/specie.html]
He calculates the numeraire, or what we call specie, then actually existing in France, at about eighty-eight millions of the same English money. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 225-249] Reference
They plundered the ship of some 400 dols. in specie, and a watch. From Wordnik.com. [Atrocious Act of Piracy] Reference
They obtained twenty-two thousand dollars in specie, and about seven thousand dollars 'worth of plate. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference
Sanety, that endangered specie is finally creeping into congress, cut the porc, reestablish the tax on the rich. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Let’s Be Blunt: Congressional Leadership Is In Disarray] Reference
The big ship brings 500 passengers, 56,000 dols. in specie, and upwards of 6000 tons of cargo — consisting principally of wheat, corn, and provisions. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Eastern] Reference
Washington, had resolved that President Lincoln's amnesty proclamation was unconstitutional, and that the army and navy ought to be paid in specie or its equivalent. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign and Colonial News] Reference
Forced to pay for land in specie, speculators and capitalists turned their investment attention elsewhere, toward goods which they could buy on credit or with paper money. 99. From Wordnik.com. [Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840] Reference
In San Francisco the legal-tender notes were worth only 60 cents in specie. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign and Colonial News] Reference
Secondly, They changed money, for the convenience of those that were to pay a half-shekel in specie every year, by way of poll, for the service of the tabernacle (Exod. xxx. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
I believe in specie-ism for now. From Wordnik.com. [Are All Animals Equal?] Reference
This movement of specie is caused by the sale of. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign and Colonial News] Reference
Sundays and all, to get the word 'specie' perfectly recorded and reproduced on the phonograph. From Wordnik.com. [Radio Boys Cronies] Reference
The States were prohibited to make anything but "specie" a legal tender without the consent of Congress. From Wordnik.com. ["Cato" on constitutional "money" and legal tender. In twelve numbers from the Charleston Mercury.] Reference
After the word "specie" in the last line of the first section, the words, "until the first day of January, 1862," be added. From Wordnik.com. [House Journal--10th Sess. A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its Tenth Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 26, 1860.] Reference
It served well in its time, but it would be insane to implement the same kind of specie arrangement today that was used until 1973. From Wordnik.com. [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference
I worked over one year, twenty hours a day, Sundays and all, to get the word 'specie' perfectly recorded and reproduced on the phonograph. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference
Page 113 money must be in some degree owing to this, and the specie which is now in this country, might as well be in any other part of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of North-Carolina, Convened at] Reference
That is, money issued by banks, central or otherwise, needed to be backed by guarantees of redemption in "specie," the economists 'term for precious metals. From Wordnik.com. [The New American] Reference
All sorts of ridiculous rumors are afloat concerning him; one, that he passed through town yesterday hid in a box marked "specie," might better begin with an h. From Wordnik.com. [The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865,] Reference
For many years, the central banks were -- decades really -- were constrained by being part of a gold standard system or some kind of specie-based, commodity, money-based system. From Wordnik.com. [CFR.org -] Reference
O Jesu, tuum vultum, Quem colimus occultum Sub panis specie. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference
"I am for specie payments," remarked Mr. Stevens, on one occasion. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Germaine's return in half an hour, which he required to collect the specie. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Davis's specie is moving south from Goldsboro ', in wagons, as fast as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The Mountain Lion is a specie of the Eastern Panther they weigh from 80 to 150 lbs. From Wordnik.com. [Black Beaver The Trapper] Reference
The specie taken with them is estimated here at from six to thirteen million dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The hog is the only specie of domestic animals that becomes a host for the thorn-headed worm. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
If it would derange the business of the country to return to specie payment at once, I would postpone it a little. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Secretary of the Treasury, in 1846, to enlarge the circulation of specie, and restrain excessive issues of bank paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
How the public debt is to be paid or specie payments resumed is not so important as that a plan should be adopted and acquiesced in. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
By Treasury Table 24, our total exports abroad of domestic produce, exclusive of specie, from the 30th of September, 1821, to 30th June. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Each and every class and specie have their own separate rules by which they seem to be governed, and by which their actions are regulated. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
This gold and silver paid the armies of the Civil War, averted national bankruptcy, and enabled the Government to resume specie payment in. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
I urge my atheist brothers and sisters to see things as Spinoza urged, sub specie aeternitatis — “under the perspective of eternity.”. From Wordnik.com. [Trying to Understand Angry Atheists] Reference
She had on board, besides, a large quantity of specie, which the Spanish Government were sending out for the payment of the troops in Cuba. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
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