• (n.) The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism.
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(from the article `money`) ...example, 15 ounces of silver equal 1 ounce of gold ( bimetallism). As the prices changed, the phenomenon associated with Gresham`s law assured ...
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Mon`o·met'al·lism noun [
Mono- +
metal .] The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See
Bimetallism .
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Monometallism is the principle of having only one metallic standard in the coinage of a country (eg gold, or silver) as opposed to bimetallism.
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the use of one metal only, as gold or silver, as a monetary standard. · the doctrine or actions supporting such a standard.
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