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• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

PAR (See also:

• LAT

Lat. par, equal)  , technically a commercial and banking See also:

• TERM

term . ' When See also:

• STOCKS

stocks, shares, &c., are purchasable at the See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791)

price originally paid for them or at their nominal or See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face value they are said to be at See also:

• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par . When the See also:

• PURCHASE

purchase price is higher than the face value, they are above par, or at a See also:

• PREMIUM (Lat. praemium, profit, reward, prae+emere, to buy)

premium; when below face value, they are below par, or at a See also:

• DISCOUNT

discount . Par of See also:

• EXCHANGE

exchange is the amount of See also:

• MONEY

money in the currency of one See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country which is See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent to the same amount in the terms of another, both currencies being of the same See also:

• METAL
• METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)

metal and of a fixed See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard.of See also:

• WEIGHT

weight and purity .