monetary convention

There are two groups of European nations, between whose members an agreement has been entered into for the regulation of their coinage. They are called the "Latin Monetary Convention," and the "Scand in avian Monetary Convention." The former includes France, Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland, the agreement having been made in December, 1865, in virtue of which the coinages of those countries are of the same weight and finene . Greece subsequently joined the convention, and a imilated her drachma to the franc. Spain, Austria and Hungary, Finland, Roumania, Servia, Bulgaria, and Monaco have also coined large amounts of either or both gold and silver into money, of weight, finene , and value, exactly proportionate to, or identical with, that of 5. Money's worth. ( Slang.) (1) Ready money: Money paid at the time a transaction is made. (2) To make money: To gain, procure, or earn wealth; to be in the way of becoming wealthy. *(3) To take eggs for money : To be easily duped. (Shakesp.: Winter's Tale , i. 2.) Obvious compounds: Money - box , money - dealer , money- lending , .