Meanings
nounfree silver (uncountable)
- UShistoricaluncountableeconomicsThe free coinage of silver, often at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.
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