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Specie

noun
1.
Coins collectively.  Synonyms: coinage, metal money, mintage.






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"Specie" Quotes from Famous Books



... managers have not as yet mastered the systematic Western methods of conducting such concerns. Even unpractised and inexpert eyes can see great room for improvement in the management of these businesses. Here, I must admit, the Japanese are ahead of us. Take, for instance, the Yokohama Specie Bank: it has a paid-up capital of Yen 30,000,000 and has branches and agencies not only in all the important towns in Japan, but also in different ports in China, London, New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Bombay, Calcutta and other places. It is conducted in the latest ...
— America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat • Wu Tingfang

... note of the amount anybody gave her, carrying bills of all dimensions between her fingers and piles of specie on her ...
— Dorothy's Travels • Evelyn Raymond

... multiplication!" said Clifford, smiling. "Ah! because that works differently. The other rules apply to the specie-s of the kingdom; but as for multiplication, we multiply, I fear, no species ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... Thompson, of Indiana, for the war and navy; and Blaine, Morton, Conkling, Chandler,—nowhere. The administration went steadily on its way, little loved by the old party chiefs; under some shadow from the character of its title; but doing good work, achieving resumption of specie payments; ending the administrative scandals which had grown worse to the end of Grant's term; reforming the civil service. It was a peaceful and beneficent revolution, and in its quiet years the Southern turmoils ...
— The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement • George S. Merriam

... may feel that the evils he or others experience here are not real evils, that, seen sub specie oeternitatis, they would cease to be regarded as such. He may feel that God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform, that "somehow good may come of ill." He may feel, as does the Christian believer, ...
— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman


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