But when gold is a mere medium of exchange,--its chief use,--then it has only a conventional value; I mean, it does not make a nation rich or poor, since the rarer it is the more it will purchase of the necessaries of life. A pound's weight of gold, in ancient Greece, or in Mediaeval Europe, would p...
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Beacon Lights of History-III
Episode 125
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