Term Gallery logo

Значения термина debase the coinage на английском

Значения для термина "debase the coinage" отсутствуют.
Использование термина debase the coinage на английском
1
Prices fell; many communes were bankrupt; kings, in desperate straits, debased the coinage and despoiled the Church.
Beginnings of the American People
2
He gave valuable assistance in debasing the coinage, and became by far the richest man in the country.
Lectures on Modern history
3
He debased the coinage, and established a fixed scale of prices to be observed by all merchants and traders.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the E...
4
To obtain money he debased the coinage, and then endeavoured to prevent a rise in prices by an arbitrary tariff.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
5
As usual, the government was blamed for the economic evils of the time and for once, in having debased the coinage, justly.
The Age of the Reformation
6
When, reign after reign, governments debased the coinage, the moral tone of the middle classes could scarcely have been higher than now.
English Prose / A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion an...
7
Referring to the sale of offices and titles, to the habit of debasing the coinage, and to that of touching for scrofula.]
The Eve of the French Revolution
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.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 / The Drapie...