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Gold and silver 'daily prices' book, First World War

Gold and silver daily prices book, First World War


(Reference number: 2A109/3)

Daily rates of exchange for Paris, Italy, Amsterdam, Madrid, Petrograd (to 1919 only), Berlin and New York; and market price of bar Gold and Bank Rate.  Includes notes on daily events during the First World War (army advances, casualties etc, Allied wins and defeats and corresponding shifts in gold prices). Later there are occasional notes on salvage operations and gold and silver movements (1915 - August 1923).

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