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This was called the par of exchange, and was so then.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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Since there was no stock of circulating specie to be supplanted by the accumulating bills, the potential for depreciation was great. 62 The par of exchange in Virginia was reckoned in the colony at 125.
Leslie V. Brock: The Colonial Currency, Prices, and Exchange Rates New York 1992
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The Belgian Government took this very imprudent step, partly because they hoped to persuade the Peace Conference to make the redemption of these bank-notes, at the par of exchange, a first charge on German assets.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes 1914
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That nothing may be wanting to render this treatife as complete as poffible, I have thought proper to infen Sir Ifaac Newton's table of the aflays, weights, and values of moft foreign filver and gold coins a£hially made at the mint, by or - der of the privy council, before the year 1717$ with notes and explanations, and a calculation of the real or intrinfic par of exchange, as it ftood 17199 when firft publifhed, and as it was republiihed in London 1 740.
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