Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
English: This chart shows the nominal price of gold along with the price in 1971 and 2011 dollars (adjusted based on the consumer price index). The historical gold price was obtained from www.igolder.com; CPI was obtained from www.rateinflation.com. The data is in section Chart Data.
The extensive use of gold during early Philippine history is well-documented, both in the archeological record and in the various written accounts from precolonial and early Spanish colonial times. [1] Gold was used throughout the Philippine archipelago in various decorative and ceremonial items, as clothing, and also as currency. [2]
"Piloncitos" is a collectors' term for the bead-like gold masa coins [1] [2] used during the aristocratic era of the Philippines and in the early years of Spanish foreign rule, [1] called bulawan ("gold piece") in many Philippine languages or salapi ("coin") or ginto ("gold piece") in Tagalog.
The price of silver has since gone down and the first silver coins were minted in 1864. The relative abundance of gold in the Philippines then came to an end with the adoption of the British gold standard now American Gold Standard in most of Europe after 1871 and the subsequent climb in the international gold/silver ratio above 16. [9]
Almost everyone is hedging that gold will rise next year, with some analysts predicting values to reach a bullish $2,300 per ounce (it’s selling at around $2,035 today), says CBS News.
For example, if one owns a share in a gold mine where the costs of production are US$300 per troy ounce ($9.6 per gram) and the price of gold is $600 per troy ounce ($19/g), the mine's profit margin will be $300. A 10% increase in the gold price to $660 per troy ounce ($21/g) will push that margin up to $360, which represents a 20% increase in ...
Until the Manila mint was established in 1857 the Philippines had no money of its own. Gold and silver coins brought to it by Spain, China and neighboring countries were in circulation. Denominations consisted of In gold escudos: 1 ⁄ 2, 1, 2, 4, 8 escudos; each escudo worth approximately 2 silver pesos or 16 reales.
The coins he designed featured Manuel L. Quezon as the Philippines' first Commonwealth President and General Murphy and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A new design for the reverse based on the seal of the Commonwealth he designed was also introduced on those commemoratives, and featured on all Philippine coins minted from 1937 until 1946.