Accordingly, every modern currency unit originated as a unit of weight of gold or silver.

相应的，所有现代货币单位都起源于黄金或白银的重量。

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And as a currency alternative, silver is more practical.

另外，作为货币替代品的白银更实用。

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Most historians have attributed that inflation, in part, to the importation, starting in 1550, of silver from the Americas, which supposedly put much more currency into circulation in Spain.

很多历史学家都认为当时的通货膨胀在很大程度上是由起始于1550年，来自美洲的大量银进口，这应该让西班牙的流通货币大幅增加。

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Should the United States support its currency with gold or with gold and silver?

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William Jennings Bryan was a liberal Democrat, a prohibitionist Presbyterian preacher, and an advocate of a silver-based currency.

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As a result few gold coins were actually minted and the vast majority of US currency was silver.

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From 1861 until 1873 neither gold nor silver were used as currency and all US currency was paper which could not be exchanged for either.

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