Paper Pound, 1797-1812First Published in 1970. This is the second edition reprint of the Bullion Report of 1810, published in 1925 with an introduction that outlines why it is a useful document as reference to the similarities of the consequences that the United Kingdom found itself in after 1919 in regards to the printing of the currency note and the Cunliffe limitation. |
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advances advert amount of Bank appears ascribed assignats average amount balance of trade Bank Directors Bank Notes Bank of England Bank of Ireland bills Bullion Committee Bullion Report cash payments cause cent circulating medium circumstances coinage commercial commodities consequence considerable considered continued Country Bank paper Davies Giddy demand for Gold depreciation diminution discount EDWIN CANNAN effect England notes England paper Evidence exceeding excess of paper Exchange with Hamburgh exportation fall favour foreign exchanges Gold Bullion Gold Coin Government grains of gold Guineas Hatchard high price Horner important increase legal tender less limit London market price Merchants millions mittee notes in circulation occasioned opinion ounce paper currency Parliament period Portugal pound sterling present price of Bullion price of Gold price of standard Promissory Notes proportion purchase reduced relative value rendered Restriction Resumption rise scarcity standard Gold suspension of cash tion unfavourable Whitmore