monometallic

Britain went to a "monometallic" (gold-only) system in 1816.

Nathan Lewis: A Brief History of the Dollar 2009

A highly suggestive fact is that, as experience develops the enormous evils of the monometallic system, the number of conversions among prominent men to bimetallism steadily increases, and they become more outspoken and radical in their views.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

We present them the example of France as an unanswerable proof that one great nation can maintain bimetallism, and that by maintaining it she escaped the worst evils that have affected the monometallic countries, and assured for herself an extraordinary progress and prosperity.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

America, and other monometallic countries; and as a result, they have almost entirely escaped those fearful convulsions have that threatened the political stability of great nations.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

They do not realize that, although it has not taken the same popular form, the discussion is quite as serious in monometallic Germany and England, and in the latter country opinion has so far advanced that both parties agree on the enormous enhancement in the value of gold.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

There are those in England who still believe that this war will be the supreme test of the gold monometallic base for money and banking.

The Audacious War 1891

But it is here proposed to start silver with a large legal-tender advantage above its market value, and with the probability, through further depreciation, of increasing that advantage by which the monometallic standard of silver will be ordained and confirmed.

American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) Various 1869

Whether she has suffered more relatively than we should have suffered from the same cause in America, had we been foolish enough to imitate the monometallic policy of Germany in 1873, is however open to question; and I have an impression, which it will require evidence to remove, that the actual organisation known as the

Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861

She has become the second naval power on the globe, and the second exporting nation, her exports averaging some $900,000,000 per year, an amount larger than the exports from this country, which has a population nearly double that of France, nearly all of it being manufactures; and had the same rate of growth continued as was maintained before France became monometallic, it is fair to presume that her exports at this time would have equalled those of Great Britain.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

a monometallic seems to be that a single-metal standard leaves out one-half of the world's resources; but the same thing must occur with a bimetallic standard unless the metals can be placed and kept in a state of exact equilibrium, or so that nothing can be gained by the exchange of one for the other.

American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) Various 1869