gold basis

When the country went off the gold basis Grandpa nearly died.

On a Gold Basis: A Treatise on Mysticism , (London: Philip Wellby.

It was a frog peeping out from a graceful tangle of grass-sprays and rushes, and was done in enamels on a gold basis, and had a gold pin back of it.

Moreover, one may imagine Utopian local authorities making contracts in which payment would be no longer in coinage upon the gold basis, but in notes good for so many thousands or millions of units of energy at one or other of the generating stations.