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  Financial Sense "Silver IS Money, Part One"   by Douglas V. Gnazzo 04/29/2005
Mention is made that the price of silver hardly budged from 2001-2003, yet within that time frame silver hit a low of near $4 per ounce and a high of over $5 an ounce, which is close to a 25% increase from low to high.
Thus, the United States was on a silver standard, but it was also on a bimetallic system of coinage, that included gold to be circulated at a “fixed” exchange rate to the silver standard.
Silver was and is the standard by which the dollar was defined.
www.financialsense.com /fsu/editorials/gnazzo/2005/silver1.html   (5123 words)

  
  Silver standard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The silver standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of silver.
In the United States this collapse was a contributory factor in the American Civil War, and in 1861 the US government suspended payment in gold and silver, effectively ending the attempts to form a silver standard basis for the dollar.
Through the 1860–1871 period various attempts to resurrect bi-metallic standards were made, including one based on the gold and silver franc, however, with the rapid influx of silver from new deposits, the expectation of scarcity of silver ended.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silver_standard   (633 words)

  
 Silver Certificate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Silver Certificates were used for a time in the United States as a form of paper currency.
They were produced in response to silver agitation by citizens angered by the "Crime of 1873", which placed the United States on the gold standard.
Silver Certificates were abolished by Congress on June 4, 1963 and all redemption in silver ceased on June 24, 1968.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silver_certificate   (1099 words)

  
 Gold standard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To understand the adoption of the international gold standard in the late 19th century, it is important to follow the events of the late 18th century and early 19th.
He called the gold standard “that barbarous relic.” This deflation reached across the remnants of the British Empire everywhere the Pound Sterling was still used as the primary unit of account.
The last gasp of the 19th century gold standard came when the attempt to balance the United States Budget in 1937 led to the “Roosevelt Recession.” Even such gold advocates as Roosevelt’s budget director conceded that until it was possible to balance the budget, a gold standard would be impossible.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gold_standard   (7928 words)

  
 Senator Jones, Gold Silver standard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The standards of the various principal countries of the occidental world previous to 1865 were either of silver, as in Germany, Holland, Scandinavia, &c., or of gold and silver equally, as in France, Spain, the United States, Belgium, &c.
With a double standard wisely fixed, all the moderately large payments would be made in gold and all the smaller ones in silver, just as for moderately large quantities of liquids the oaken hogshead is employed and for smaller ones the tin gallon.
The violent aberrations in the annual supplies of gold, the steadiness of silver, the often deficient and sometimes excessive supplies of the one, and the always ample supplies of the other forbid us to rely upon one as a standard of value to the exclusion of the other, and particularly when that one is gold.
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 Silver Standard Resources
Silver Standard Resources Inc. controls the largest silver resource of any publicly-traded company in North America and is focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of silver-dominant projects.
Silver Standard Resources Inc. reported highlights from its ongoing program of diamond drilling at its wholly-owned Pitarrilla silver project located approximately 150 kilometers (90 miles) north of Durango City in the state of Durango, Mexico.
Silver shares have not followed the silver price - which may be a bit puzzling, but this should be viewed as a buying opportunity such as has often happened in the past.
www.gold-eagle.com /editorials_05/zihlmann042005.html   (1263 words)

  
 Silver Standard Resources News
Silver is one metal that has always enjoyed mass appeal, from the heavy candlesticks in your grandmother's formal dining room to the rings adorning the hands of your local Grateful Dead follower.
Silver Standard Resources Inc. is pleased to report that infill diamond drilling at the Pitarrilla silver project in Mexico continues to demonstrate continuity of mineralization over thick intervals at the...
Silver companies are basking in the glory of a new-found respect, attracting much attention amid the glitter of one of the world's largest mining conventions.
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 (going off) The Silver Standard
Gelatin silver printing has so dominated the monochrome photographic world that the conventional term used for all other print processes (except digital prints) is 'alternate process' - that is, an alternate to the de facto standard of the silver print.
Photography was about gelatin silver prints, and the generally accepted aesthetic rapidly swung toward the strengths (and away from the weaknesses) of the gelatin silver print, and landed us with what I call The Silver Standard - glossy, air dried, fiber base gelatin silver prints.
Sure, those things were possible with silver printing, but when we smeared gelatin silver emulsion on canvas, or watercolor paper, we lost the strengths of silver printing, and kept the weaknesses.
www.butzi.net /articles/silverstandard.htm   (2252 words)

  
 1896: The Currency Question
They implied that coinage of silver (on Bryan's side) or adherence to the gold standard (on the Republican side) was the single key to prosperity--and sometimes to the nation's honor.
To Silver Democrats, federal coinage of silver (at a weight ratio of 16 ounces to 1 ounce of gold, hence the slogan "16 to 1") was a moderate solution to the currency problem.
Free silver at "16 to 1" would have expanded the money supply, but as a lone measure it would hardly have solved the nation's economic woes, and it would have (as Republicans argued) substantially raised the value of silver in relation to gold.
projects.vassar.edu /1896/currency.html   (1818 words)

  
 www.mineweb.net | sections | gold & silver US Silver ETF Close to Final Approval   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The period of greatest liquidity in the silver market occurs generally during a daily four-hour period when European times zones overlap with trading in the U.S. In their findings, the SEC said it agreed with AMEX that "the Silver Shares will increase the efficiency and transparency of the market for the underlying instrument, i.e., silver.
Silver Institute Vice President Robert Quartermain, the President and CEO of Vancouver-based Silver Standard Resources, told Mineweb the SEC ruling stimulated buying and interest in his company's stocks Tuesday, resulting in a record trade volume of 2.2 million shares.
Silver Standard has nearly all of its silver in the ground.
www.mineweb.net /sections/gold_silver/984016.htm   (537 words)

  
 Gold Standard, by Michael D. Bordo: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
The gold standard was a commitment by participating countries to fix the prices of their domestic currencies in terms of a specified amount of gold.
England adopted a de facto gold standard in 1717 after the master of the mint, Sir Isaac Newton, overvalued the silver guinea and formally adopted the gold standard in 1819.
The gold standard broke down during World War I as major belligerents resorted to inflationary finance and was briefly reinstated from 1925 to 1931 as the Gold Exchange Standard.
www.econlib.org /library/Enc/GoldStandard.html   (1978 words)

  
 SILVER STANDARD RESOURCES INC. | CompanyMine
Silver Standard's 16 projects have proven and probable reserves of 107.1 million ounces of silver, measured and indicated resources totaling over 605 million ounces of silver.
Silver Standard holds a 100% interest in Pirquitas, with surface rights, permits and a fiscal stability agreement in place.
The Pitarrilla project, a new, 100%-interest silver discovery in Durango, Mexico, is at the Phase IV drilling stage.
www.infomine.com /index/companies/SILVER_STANDARD_RESOURCES_INC..html   (333 words)

  
 Silver Standard Resources Inc. - 12/13/2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The NASDAQ Stock Market is proud to welcome Silver Standard Resources Inc. and its President Robert Quartermain to the Market Opening Bell to celebrate the company's trading upgrade.
Silver Standard Resources Inc. is among the premier publicly-traded primary silver companies in North America and is focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of silver-dominant projects.
Silver Standard is a significant silver resource company with silver-dominant projects in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Chile, the United States, Australia and Canada.
www.nasdaq.com /reference/200412/market_open_121304.stm   (326 words)

  
 Silver Standard
Silver Standard controls the world's largest published in-ground silver resources of any publicly-traded silver company, with a portfolio of properties in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Canada, the United States and Australia.
Silver Standard is now building its first modern mine, Pirquitas, in northern Argentina, with production expected to commence in late 2008.
Silver Standard's shares offer investors a high leverage to silver price increases, with additional exploration upside.
www.silver-standard.com   (158 words)

  
 Gold and Silver Standards
The English penny had originally been a small silver coin weighing one "pennyweight" (1/20 troy ounce, or $0.0645), while the "pound" had originally been a troy pound of silver (12 troy ounces, or $15.48).
In 1688 CE, the kurush ("piaster") was a silver dollar, but by 1909 CE, it had shrunk to a small coin equivalent to $0.038 in silver.
Valuations prefaced by "(silver)" are especially likely to be overstated, since the nominal $1.29/ounce valuation of silver used here was twice its free market valuation.
www.cyberussr.com /hcunn/gold-std.html   (2059 words)

  
 Silver Standard Resources Inc. information and related industry information from Hoover's
Silver Standard Resources' properties hold one of the largest silver reserves of any publicly traded company.
Most of Silver Standard's assets are in silver, the rest in by-product metals such as gold, tin, and zinc.
Silver Standard has also partnered with Minco Mining and Metals to explore silver projects in China.
www.hoovers.com /silver-standard/--ID__52050--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (413 words)

  
 Silver Standard Resources Inc. - Home Page - Wed May 31, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Silver Standard controls the world's largest published in-ground silver resources of any publicly-traded silver company, with a portfolio of core properties in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Peru, the United States and Australia.
The company's strategy is to acquire and advance high quality, geopolitically diverse silver projects with defined resources in anticipation of higher silver prices.
Silver Standard shares offer investors a high leverage to silver price increases, with additional exploration upside.
www.silverstandard.com /s/Home.asp   (151 words)

  
 Silver Standard To Present At Triple Gold Investment Conference In..
Silver Standard To Present At Triple Gold Investment Conference In..
Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, Silver Standard Resources, Inc., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition and exploration of silver properties in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.
Its principal mineral properties include the Pirquitas Project in the province of Jujuy, Argentina; Pitarrilla Project in Durango State, Mexico; the Bowdens Silver Project in the Mudgee District of Australia; the Shafter Silver Project in Texas, the United States; and a 50% interest in the Manantial Espejo Project in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina.
www.amex.com /newsDetails/CmnNewsDet.jsp?id=XpressFeed_NewsDetails_1135056473808.html   (585 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Gold standard [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Bank runs and failures were a common feature of life during the period when the gold standard was the established economic system.
The reason these visions are not practically pursued is based on the same reasons that the gold standard fell apart in the first place: a fixed rate of exchange decreed by governments have no organic relationship between the supply and demand of gold and the supply and demand of goods.
Fact: The gold standard causes deflation and depressions (http://home.att.net/~Resurgence/L-gold.htm) — A Keynesian view of the gold standard.
encyclozine.com /Gold_standard   (6684 words)

  
 Silver Standard Resources Stock Price (SSRI), Stock Quotes, Charts, Trades & Market News.
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 Chemistry : Periodic Table : silver : standard reduction potentials
Chemistry : Periodic Table : silver : standard reduction potentials
Chemistry: WebElements Periodic Table: Professional Edition: Silver: standard reduction potentials
The standard reduction potentials given here for aqueous solutions are adapted from the IUPAC publication reference 1 with additional data and an occasional correction incorporated from many other sources, in particular, references 2-7.
www.webelements.com /webelements/elements/text/Ag/redn.html   (223 words)

  
 Silver Standard - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review
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 Mexican Silver Marks - Online Encyclopedia of Silver Marks, Hallmarks & Maker's Marks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Above is a sampling of Mexican silver purity marks ranging from the ca.1900 to the early 1970's.
The "Mexico Silver" or "Silver Made in Mexico" are seen on pieces from the 1920's through mid 1940's, their silver standard varies, but is commonly above.925 purity.
The intaglio "900" mark is found on work dating from the turn of the century until the 1920's.
www.925-1000.com /mexican_marks.html   (295 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Martex 300-Thread-Count Standard Pillowcases, Silver Blue: Kitchen & Housewares   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
With a blend of 60 percent cotton and 40 percent polyester, the easy convenience of machine washing provides a crispy clean feeling anytime of year, and improves with each laundry.
Available in a variety of rich hues to match bedroom décor and furnishings, the standard size is perfect for twin, full, and queen beds along with matching sheets to complete the linen ensemble.
Luxury marries down-to-earth easy care in these upscale 300 thread-count sheets that are a durable cotton-rich blend.
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 100,000,000 Americans for the Gold and Silver standard Petition
The united states dollar was taken completely off of the gold and silver standard during the depression, well I say we put it back on.
With the dollar being on the Gold and Silver standard it would increase the value of these precious metals and make for better business for all jewelry artisans.
The 100,000,000 Americans for the Gold and Silver standard Petition to U.S. Congress was created by Archmaille Designs and written by Cody Sortore (codysortore@archmaille.com).
www.petitiononline.com /gsilver/petition.html   (202 words)

  
 Silver Standard Resources Inc. - Information Request - Wed May 31, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Silver Standard Resources Inc. - Information Request - Wed May 31, 2006
Silver Standard Resources Inc. offers a number of different methods for you to get in contact with management and/or request information that is vital to your investment strategy.
To speak with someone in regards to current activities, events, etc., please contact our Investor Relations department directly.
www.silver-standard.com /s/InformationRequest.asp   (101 words)

  
 Nationalbanken // Historical snapshots // Historical snapshots // From silver standard to gold standard
Nationalbanken // Historical snapshots // Historical snapshots // From silver standard to gold standard
Germany's decision to introduce the gold standard drew greater interest in the gold standard in Denmark.
Germany and the UK, Denmark's two most important trading partners, would now both have a monetary system based on gold, and to avoid exchange-rate fluctuations via the gold and silver values, it was an advantage for Denmark also to adopt the gold standard.
www.nationalbanken.dk /dnuk/hist.nsf/side/From_silver_standard_to_gold_standard   (124 words)

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