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What is an agio?

What is an agio? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. 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.
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The question of the agio of the Hamburg banco system belongs rather to the history of banking.
Now there's an agio on gold, you pay five kreutzers for every Louis.
All those who have an account in bank, may demand to be paid in ready money, but they cannot require the agio.
One shilling and twopence were lost in agio, in exchanging my small remaining stock of Prussian dollars into Austrian gold.
The Stockjobber has no country, except his own black pool of agio.
Payment of the paid-up fraction of the face value and of the totality of the agio on issue shall take place no later than the thirty-fifth day following the expiry of the time limit for subscription.

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