gold basis

At the present time, certainly, no thought has ever occurred to Germans that they would not go back to a gold basis.

The currency of Mexico is now established on the gold basis.

An advocate of a gold basis snorted derisively that silver could be mined profitably at eighteen cents an ounce.

In other words the gold basis of the country's deposit credits amounted to 4.27 percent.

We heard nothing in those days of greenbacks, silver coinage, or a gold basis.