---- Value or Purchasing Power of Gold
.... Value or Purchasing Power of Silver

in per-centages on Values of 1860; assuming that the list of 223 commodities in report of Finance Com. U. S. Senate No. 1394, weighted according to importance, fairly represents all commodities, and that their average is therefore of constant value.

[(Larger)]

Diagram of Price Variations

Showing average per-centage of change,
from prices of 1860, of each of four lists
of commodities, Gold prices.

Platted from tables in Senate Report No. 1394 Finance Com. 2nd Session, 52nd Con.

=== U. S. Senate Finance Com. List 223 Commodities
--- Mr Sauerbeck's List. English prices. 56 Commodities
... Economist List. English prices. 22 Commodities
,,, Mr Soetbeer's List. Hamburg and Eng. prices 114 Commodities.

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