28 feb 1878 anni - Bland-Allison Act

Descrizione:

-Authorized coinage of a limited number of silver dollars and "silver certificate" paper money

-First of several government subsidies to silver producers in depression periods

-Required government to buy between $2 and $4 million worth of silver for conversion into silver dollars containing 16x more silver per coin than gold

-to provide for freer coinage of silver

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