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On a Method of substituting Francs and Centimes for the present English Metallic Currency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

James Yates Esq.
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Extract

Having for some years been an advocate for the abolition of the measures, weights, and coins, now used in Great Britain, and the adoption in their stead of the système métrique, employed throughout a great part of the Continent, I have had occasion to consider the various difficulties which present themselves in the prosecution of this object.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , 1855 , pp. 146 - 151
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1855

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References

page 146 note * Report from the Select Committee on Decimal Coinage, 1853, p. 50.

page 147 note * See scheme of coinage, p. 151.

page 150 note * The shilling contains one sixtieth less alloy than the franc.