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Definition of Seignorage
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seignorage
Literary usage of Seignorage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Joseph Shield Nicholson (1895)
"A seignorage will, in many cases, take two per cent. below its standard weight
... If this dif- have liad the seignorage to pay, which being ference is less ..."
2. Letters to the Editor of "The Times" Journal: On the Affairs and Conduct of by Richard Page (1826)
"THAT to the extent of a seignorage, value is not added to the coin, we shall
immediately be convinced, by attending to the following facts and observations. ..."
3. The Theory of Money and Banks Investigated by George Tucker (1839)
"THE POLICY OF A GRATUITOUS COINAGE AND OF A seignorage COMPARED. THE arguments
and considerations, which seem to have recommended the practice of converting ..."
4. The Theory of Money and Banks Investigated by George Tucker (1839)
"THE POLICY OF A GRATUITOUS COINAGE AND OF A seignorage COMPARED. THE arguments
and considerations, which seem to have recommended the practice of converting ..."
5. A Treatise on Coins, Currency, and Banking: With Observations on the Bank by Henry Nicholas Sealy (1858)
"A seignorage will, in many cases, take away altogether and will, ... If this
difference is less than the seignorage, there will be loss instead of profit. ..."
6. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1869)
"The seignorage in France raises the value of the coin higher than in ... If this
difference is less than the seignorage, there will be loss instead of ..."
7. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1914)
"The seignorage in France raises the value of the coin higher than in ... If this
difference is less than the seignorage, there will be loss instead of ..."
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