 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...custom of paying them in money. This money, however, was, for a long time, received at the exchequer, by weight, and not by tale. The inconveniency and...but the weight of the metal. Such coins, therefore, were received by tale, as at present, without the trouble of weighing. The denominations of those coins... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...for a long time received at the exchequer in England, by weight and not by tale. The inconvenicncy and difficulty of weighing those metals with exactness,...the produce of virgin gold, found in the county of Cabarrus, in the state of North-Carolina.. ...^c/avi Smith, Bouilinot. MINUTE SERPENT, a species of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...coins ; of which the stamp, covering entirely both sides of the piece, and sometimes the edges too, wag supposed to ascertain not only the fineness, but the weight of the metal. Such coins, therefore, were received by tale as at present, without the trouble of weighing. The denominations of those coins... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...received at the Exchequer by weight, and not by tale. Theinconveniencyanddifficultyof weighingthose metals with exactness, gave occasion to the institution...but the weight of the metal. Such coins, therefore, were received by tale, as at present, without the trouble of weighing. — The denominations of those... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 576 pages
...money. This money, however, was, for a long time, received at the exchequer by weight and not by tale.1 The inconveniency and difficulty of weighing those...but the weight of the metal. Such coins, therefore, were received by tale as at present, without the trouble of weighing. The denominations of those coins... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...custom of paying them in money. This money however was, for a long time, received at the exchequer by weight and not by tale. The inconveniency and difficulty...but the weight of the metal. Such coins therefore were received by tale as at present, without the trouble of weighing. The denominations of those coins... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - English prose literature - 1888 - 368 pages
...custom of paying them in money. This money, however, was, for a long time, received at the exchequer, by weight, and not by tale.* The inconveniency and...but the weight of the metal. Such coins, therefore, were received by tale as at present, without the trouble of weighing. * So late as the 14th century,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1894 - 526 pages
...weight and not by tale, in the same manner as ingots of gold and bars of silver are at present. . . . The inconveniency and difficulty of weighing those...but the weight of the metal. Such coins therefore were received by tale as at present, without the trouble of weighing. . . . It is in this manner that... | |
 | Henry Adolph Miller - Bimetallism - 1898 - 332 pages
...custom of paying them in money. This money, however, was for a long time received at the exchequer by weight and not by tale. " The inconveniency and...but the weight of the metal. Such coins, therefore, were received by tale as at present, without the trouble of weighing." The same author ' says : " These... | |
 | Henry Adolph Miller - Bimetallism - 1898 - 332 pages
...custom of paying them in money. This money, however, was for a long time received at the exchequer by weight and not by tale. " The inconveniency and...but the weight of the metal. Such coins, therefore, were received by tale as at present, without the trouble of weighing." The same author ' says : " These... | |
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The inconveniency and difficulty of weighing those metals with exactness gave occasion to the institution of coins, of which the stamp, covering entirely both sides of the piece and sometimes the edges too, was supposed to ascertain not only the fineness,... 
