What these acts said was that it was illegal to pay someone in anything other than coin of the realm.

People needed a more practical system of exchange, so various money systems developed.

Freight cars were derailed and services suspended on the Chuo Line.

A cargo vessel, bound for Athens, sank in the Mediterranean without a trace.

Many goods are now transported by air.

They exchanged Japanese money for American.

Britain's currency crisis has turned into a political one over government failure to stop the pound from going into free-fall.

In a fight against speculators who are dumping the U.S. currency, central banks of major countries have carried out massive concerted interventions in the market.

In a fight against speculators who are dumping the U.S. currency, central banks of major countries have carried out massive concerted interventions in the market.

Investing abroad on your national currency basis will not always be profitable.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

In 1971 the United Kingdom changed its currency to the decimal system.

A cargo vessel, bound for Athens, sank in the Mediterranean without a trace.

The authorities are striving in vain to stabilize the currency.

In the midst of the dollar falling hard against the Yen and other major Eastern currencies the Chinese Yuan, with China effectively taking a 'dollar peg' policy, has become cheap.