| 1. | Gold, silver and copper coins were issued by the royal free coinage.
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| 2. | The act demonetized silver, as well as abolished its right to free coinage.
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| 3. | Under free coinage, the government purchased and coined any silver that was sold.
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| 4. | In 1878, the Bland-Allison Act was enacted to provide for freer coinage of silver.
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| 5. | Meanwhile, the Northern Alliance stressed the demand for free coinage of large amounts of silver.
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| 6. | Not long before this dispute, miners at Cripple Creek had formed the Free Coinage Union.
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| 7. | The Silverites advocated free coinage of silver.
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| 8. | When the Bland bill, allowing the free coinage of silver, came to the Senate, Allison altered it.
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| 9. | Free coinage of silver would have amounted to an increase in the money supply, with inflation as the result.
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| 10. | Limantour established the gold standard in Mexico, suspending free coinage of silver, and mandating only government coins be used.
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