Permanent historical factsheet

Latin Monetary Union Silver Closure

France · Government / Government of France. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1878Date range
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Chronological records

1878

Leon Say1878

Paris · Government / Government of France

The Latin Monetary Union permanently halts unrestricted minting of full-value silver coins, leaving gold as the effective monetary anchor of the union.

Names involved

Leon Say

Provenance

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