certain foreign coins; and paper banknotes issued by state-chartered private banks and backed by those institutions. Congress regulated the weight of gold and silver required to be contained in ...

Several dozen other coins, made of an alloy of gold, silver and copper, come from what is now Great Britain and were stamped ...

The first coins minted were the: The silver-to-gold ratio was 15:1 so one ... The Index measures the value of the dollar versus a basket of foreign currencies. This value is down from a high ...