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Agio vs Agin - What's the difference?

agio | agin |

As a noun agio

is the premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

As an adverb agin is

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As a preposition agin is

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agio

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
  • * 1989 , Isaac Levy, translator, The Pentateuch'' (translation of, Samson Raphael Hirsch, ''Der Pentateuch, ubersetzt und erlautert ), second edition, volume 2, Exodus, Judaica Press, ISBN 0910818126, page 582 (commentary to Exodus 30:16),
    • Owing to the enormous number of half-shekel coins required each year in Adar, these were greatly in demand, and the money-changers made a small fixed charge of an agio for changing whole into half shekels.
  • * 1776 , Adam Smith, An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations , [http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=220&Itemid=28].
    • The money of such banks being better than the common currency of the country, necessarily bore an agio , which was greater or smaller, according as the currency was supposed to be more or less degraded below the standard of the state.

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    agin

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    Adverb

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  • * 1859 , (Charles Dickens), "A Tale of Two Cities", in (All the Year Round) , vol. 1, p. 98:
  • ** At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation : “Bust me, if she ain't at it agin !”

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  • * 1859 , (w, Harper's New Monthly Magazine) , vol. 19, p. 278:
  • ** [The Court] said: "Young man, this ere Court is satisfied that there ain't nothin' in the laws of Vermont agin''' tippin' over a churn full of sap. [...] But I want ye should remember one thing—that this ere Court has made up his mind that it's a very naughty trick, and it's a shame that there's so many maple-trees in the State, and no law '''agin tippin' over sap."

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