ABSTRACT
Considering the nature of monies, we have seen that they are not a sign, as a sign has no consistency in itself; all its merit comes from the thing it represents. On the contrary, money, even paper money, is an agent, an instrument which derives a value of its own from its uses, a value which is paid for in the same way as all values capable of being exchanged, according to the want that some have for this thing and to the quantity that others can supply.
