Sentence examples for ounce of silver from inspiring English sources

The price of an ounce of silver rose 14 cents, to $4.33, while the price of a barrel of crude oil climbed $1.89, to $29.74.

The sharpest counterpoint came from Representative Ron Paul, Republican of Texas and a candidate for president, who flourished an actual, shiny ounce of silver as he lectured Mr. Bernanke on the declining value of the dollar.

The best metallic reflectors available in 1820 were constructed of heavily silvered copper in the proportion of 6 ounces of silver to 16 ounces of copper (compared with the 0.5 ounce of silver to 16 ounces of copper commonly used for plated tableware of the period).

All this climaxed in early 1980, when investors paid up to US$850 per ounce of gold (and $50 for an ounce of silver) because everyone knew that gold was heading to $3,000 the ounce.

In the 1630s a string of one thousand copper coins equaled an ounce of silver; by 1640 that sum could fetch half an ounce; and, by 1643 only one-third of an ounce.

This statute gave the United States authority to sell metal to the British government from up to 350,000,000 silver dollars at $1 per ounce of silver plus the value of the copper in the coins, and handling and transportation fees.

There is also 30.2 million ounces of silver.

In the United States a ratio of 15 ounces of silver to 1 ounce of gold was set in 1792.

He bought control of 111.2 million ounces of silver in 1997.

The price of the 18.5 million ounces of silver he bought by Jan . 12 , 1998is not known.

It was for 1,700 ounces of silver, worth about $26,000, authorities said.