Gold and the Gold Standard.pdf

M
Macedon, Philip of, 26
M'Culloch, J. R., 44
McLeod, H. D., 35
MacMillan Committee of
Great Britain, 126-127,
209
Managing the monetary
standard, 118-119, 131­
132
Market for gold, unlimited,
under gold standard, 144
Massachusetts Bay Colony,
gold coins in, 55-56
Mattingly, Harold, 12, 14-18
Mexican coins, circulation of,
in U.S., discontinued in
1857, 83
Mexican Currency Commission,
184
Mexico, 4, 108, 183
Middle Ages, .place of gold
in money of, 19-22
Mina, ancient Babylonian
unit ofweight, 4
Mint, U.S., Act of 1792
authorizing establishment
of, 61-68
Ale'xander Hamilton's report
on, summarized,
61-66
charges for coining, ·68
gold at, after 1873, 144
INDEX
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Moidore of Portugal, circulation
of, in ,Massachusetts
Bay Colony, 55
Monetary demand for gold,
nature of, 141-:-143
Monetary gold vs. gold in the
arts, 147-148
Monetary standard, of U.S.,
of future, 209-211
since 1934, 131-132
Monetary unit explained, 139
Money, coins p1reserved from
early times, 6
definition of, 3
metallic, and theU.S. Constitution,
60-61
origin of the word, 13
references to, in New Testament,15
Monometallism, agitation for,
in U.S., 1830 to 1834,
72-74
Morris, Robert, coinage
scheme proposed by, 57,
58
Myers, William Starr, 123
N
Natural forces, gold stand·ard
controlled by, 194-195
Nero, monetary situation during
reign of, 18-19
Newton, Sir Isaac, 37, 48
Newton, Walter H., 123