Monetary-unit Sentence Examples

There is no Uruguayan gold coin in circulation, but the theoretical monetary unit is the gold peso national, weighing 1.697 grammes, .917 fine.

Gold is the nominal standard of value, the monetary unit being the gold milreis worth 2s.

Under the currency law of the 31st of March 1879, the thousandth part of a kilogramme of gold was made the monetary unit and was called a bolivar, in honour of the Venezuelan liberator.

The monetary unit is the Peruvian pound (libra) which is uniform in weight and fineness with the British pound sterling.

The monetary unit is the gold colon weighing 778 gramme, 900 fine, and thus worth about 23d.

By a law of the 9th of December 1904, promulgated by an executive decree of the 25th of March 1905, the gold standard was adopted, and the silver peso, 9027 fine and containing 24.438 grammes of pure silver, was made the monetary unit with a valuation of .75 grammes of gold.

The monetary unit is the silver peso or dollar of too cents, which weighs 25 grammes, .900 fine.

The monetary unit is io kronor gold, and gold pieces, not widely met with in circulation, are struck of 20, 10 and 5 kronor.

Coinage, Weights and Measures.The monetary unit is the kran, a silver coin, formerly weighing 28 nakhods (88 grains), then reduced to 26 nakhods (77 grains), and now weighing only 24 nakhods (71 grains) or somewhat less.

The values of coin and notes are expressed in multiples of the real (plural reis), a monetary unit which does not actually exist.

The monetary unit is the dinar (franc) of loo paras (centimes).

There is no national monetary unit in Andorra, both French francs and Spanish pesetas are accepted.