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Foreign exchange - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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The negociator's magazine: or the most authentic account yet published, of the monies, weights, and measures, of the principal places of trade in the known world. Also an account of the European exchanges in general; the Laws and Customs of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, &c. with the Method of computing Exchanges; also the Nature and Use of Simple and Compound Arbitrations. To which are added, curious calculations of great use in the West-Indian and American trades, and Tables shewing the intrinsick Value of any foreign Gold or Silver Coin. All of great Use to Merchants and Traders; and entirely necessary to those, who would understand Merchants Accounts. By Richard Hayes. The tenth edition, revised, methodized, and improved with the addition of several new and useful tables, by Benjamin Webb, Writing Master and Accountant, and Master of the Grammar School belonging to the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers in Bunhill-Row; Author of the Tables for buying and selling Stocks, and of the Complete Annuitant.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: 1770- Books
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The Real or Intrinsic par of exchange, between London and the other cities on which negotiations in bills are usually made; calculated from the actual assays made at the Mint, by the accurate Sir Isaac Newton, of the several foreign coins; whereof a table follows. ...
Date: 1731- Books
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The negociator's magazine of monies and exchanges. In three parts. Part I. Contains advice and instructions, relating to Bills of Exchange, the Monies of one Country compared with another; the way to know what one Country gets of another at any Time by the Exchange; as also, an Account of the English Gold and Silver Coins, the Weights and Fineness, and the several Alterations they have undergone for near 500 Years past, with their present Standards and Weights at this Time. Part II. Shews the real and imaginary monies, the current Prices of the Exchanges; and the Method to calculate them for most Places in Europe, with the Distinctions of Bank and current Money, and the ways of casting up the Agio's, &c. Part III. Contains arbitrations of the exchanges, and that Universal Rule made use of by Merchants and Negociators in all their Reductions and Calculations, both in the Exchanges of Monies, and Reduction of Weights and Measures of different Countries; as also, how Exchange is reckoned; of Brokerage and Provision, with useful Observations upon the Prices or Courses of the Exchange. By Richard Hayes, Author of the New Method for valuing Annuities upon Lives, &c. And Teacher of Merchant Accounts, at the Corner of Princes Street, facing Stocks Market.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]