Limping standard. This term is applied to the monetary system of a country which originally
maintained the double standard, but which has suspended the free coinage of silver without
definitely adopting the gold standard. France is such a country. According to its monetary laws it
still is a double standard country, but the gold standard is actually in use. Its mints are now open
to the free coinage of gold only and the silver in circulation instead of passing at its bullion value
circulates, by reason of the restricted coinage of it, at the value of gold. It is the gold standard with
a "limp."