This permission of exporting, he said, rendered the demand for silver bullion greater than the demand for silver coin.

他说，这种出口许可使得对银条的需大于对银币的需。

It's derived from the way the Romans measured bronze and silver bars they used for currency 2,000 years ago.

它源于 2000 年前罗马人测量他们用于货币的青铜和银条的方式。

They have been snapping up silver even faster-so much so, in fact, that the transatlantic price gap justifies loading bars of it onto commercial flights.

纽约交易员们抢购白银的速度更快，事实上已经快到大西洋两岸的银价出现差距，并导致银条必须用商业航班运输。

A lot of green smoke came billowing out, and as it cleared, Harry gasped. Inside were mounds of gold coins. Columns of silver. Heaps of little bronze Knuts.

一股浓浓的绿烟从门里冒出来，浓烟散尽之后，哈利倒抽了一口气。里边是成堆的金币、银条和堆积如山的青铜纳特。

The occasional fluctuations in the market price of gold and silver bullion arise from the same causes as the like fluctuations in that of all other commodities.

金条和银条的市场价格偶尔波动的原因与所有其他商品的类似波动的原因相同。

Though the market price of silver bullion has fallen considerably since the reformation of the gold coin, it has not fallen so low as the mint price.

尽管金币改革以来银条的市场价格大幅下跌，但还没有跌到铸币价格那么低。

Before the late recoinage of the gold, the price of silver bullion was seldom higher than five shillings and sevenpence an ounce, which is but fivepence above the mint price.

在黄金重新铸币之前，银条的价格很少高于每盎司五先令七便士，也就是比造币厂的价格高出五便士。

Even before the late recoinage of the gold, therefore, the coin, gold and silver together, when compared with silver bullion, was not supposed to be more than eight per cent.

因此，即使在最近重新铸造黄金之前， 与银条相比， 硬币、黄金和白银的总和也不应该超过百分之八。

In order to facilitate the trade in bullion, the bank has been for these many years in the practice of giving credit in its books, upon deposits of gold and silver bullion.

为了促进金条交易， 多年来，银行一直在其账簿上根据金条和银条存款提供信贷。

In general, however, something more is given upon coin of a known fineness, than upon gold and silver bars, of which the fineness cannot be ascertained but by a process of melting and assaying.

然而，一般来说，已知纯度的硬币比金条和银条具有更多的价值，金条和银条的纯度只能通过熔化和化验的过程才能确定。

As the reformation of the silver coin did not then reduce the price of silver bullion to the mint price, it is not very probable that a like reformation will do so now.

由于当时的银币改革并没有将银条的价格降低到铸币厂的价格，所以现在类似的改革也不太可能这样做。

They are said, however, to be the current money of the merchant, and yet are received by weight, and not by tale, in the same manner as ingots of gold and bars of silver are at present.

然而，据说它们是商人的流通货币，但它们是按重量而不是按故事收取的，就像现在的金锭和银条一样。