A money of account served no purpose in a monometallic system; but in a bimetallic system the device was used to adjust the legal ratio between silver and gold coins to the free market exchange ratio between the metals, by “crying the currency up or down”—that is by increasing or decreasing the values of real coins in terms of the money of account.
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