specie point
English
Noun
specie point (plural specie points)
- (finance) Synonym of gold point.
- 1885, Charles Francis Bastable, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XVI, "Money":
- The difficulties which arise when universal coinage schemes are brought forward ought not to conceal from us the solid advantages which such an institution would confer on the world... The question of mint pars would no longer arise, and the specie points would be stated more simply.
- 1885, Charles Francis Bastable, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XVI, "Money":
References
- "specie point" in Collins English Dictionary (2012), New York: HarperCollins.