CHAPTER II
From the Discovery of America to the End of the First Cycle of the Influence of the Metals of the New World on European Currencies, 1493-1660
General characteristics: First movement of metals from the New World, [61]; mercantile importance of the Netherlands, [63]; statistics of the production of the precious metals, [65]; statement of the Mint ratio, [69]; operation of the Netherlands plakkaats, [71]; list of ditto, [76]; tables of ditto, [79]; monetary experience of France, [83]; course of the monies under Henry II. and Charles IX., [84]; the States-General of 1575, [87]; Henry III.'s reform of 1577, [88]; checked by Henry IV., 1602, [89]; the monetary experience of 1614, and reform of 1615, [90]; recoinage of 1640, [91]; Florence, [93]; Germany, [95]; table of the groschen and gulden, [97]; Imperial Mint Ordinances of 1524, 1551, and 1559, [98], [99]; Mint disorders, [100]; Kipper und Wipper Zeit, [102]; Imperial basis of
1623, [106]; Spain, [107]; her function as a distributor, [108]; England [113]; tables of gold and silver coins, [113]; recoinage of 1527, [118]; export of 1537, [119]; measures of 1544, [121]; the Tudor debasement, [123]; Elizabeth's recoinage, 1559, [129]; the mistake of 1600, remedied by James I., [132]; export of 1607 and 1611, Sir Walter Raleigh's opinions, [134]; crisis of 1620-22, [139]; the State prosecutions of 1638, [148]; the troubles of 1649 and 1652, [151].
CHAPTER III
From the End of the First Cycle of American Influences to the Present Day, 1660-1894
Statistics of the production of the precious metals, [154]; statement of the ratio, [157]; development of theory of international trade, [160]; free trade in the precious metals, [163]; place of discount and interest rates in the modern system, [165]; monetary experience of France, [167]; recoinages of 1689, 1726, and 1785, [168]; Calonne's ratio, [172]; monetary action of Republican France, [173]; the law of 1803, [176]; bimetallic experiences, 1803-76, [179]; movements and mintings of the metals, [183]; measures of 1835, [187]; French monetary commissions, [188]; formation of the Latin Union, [190]; its history, [193]; Germany, [197]; Zinnaische standard, [199]; Leipzig standard, 1690, [200]; Austrian or Convention standard, [201]; South German standard, [202]; Prussian standard, [203]; Conference of Munich, 1837, [204]; Mint conventions of Dresden, 1838, and of Vienna, 1857, [205]-[212]; agitation of 1857-70, [213]; new Imperial system, [215]; England, [219]; recoinage of 1696, [222]; Newton's report, 1717, [229]; recoinage of 1774, [233]; silver legislation, [237]; Bank Restriction and the Act of 1816, [240]; movements and mintings of the metals, [244]; United States, [246]; beginnings of a national system, [247]; reports of Morris and Hamilton, [249]-[251]; Act of 1792, [253]; gold export and the law of 1834, [255]; silver export and the law of 1853 and 1873, [259]; Acts of 1878, 1890, and 1893, [262]; movements and mintings of the metals, [265]; Netherlands, [268]; Portugal, [272]; the international conferences, [274]; Paris conferences of 1867, 1878, and 1881, [275]-[280]; Brussels Conference of 1892, [285]; India, [293]; her historic function, [293]; movements and mintings of the metals, [299].