Encara no tenim significats per a "debase the coinage".
1Prices fell; many communes were bankrupt; kings, in desperate straits, debased the coinage and despoiled the Church.
2He gave valuable assistance in debasing the coinage, and became by far the richest man in the country.
3He debased the coinage, and established a fixed scale of prices to be observed by all merchants and traders.
4To obtain money he debased the coinage, and then endeavoured to prevent a rise in prices by an arbitrary tariff.
5As usual, the government was blamed for the economic evils of the time and for once, in having debased the coinage, justly.
6When, reign after reign, governments debased the coinage, the moral tone of the middle classes could scarcely have been higher than now.
7Referring to the sale of offices and titles, to the habit of debasing the coinage, and to that of touching for scrofula.]
8[Footnote 21: James II., during his unsuccessful campaign in Ireland, debased the coinage in order to make his funds meet the demands of his soldiery.