Whoever wished to make a present to a godchild, or to pay foreign tradesmen, had to give an increasing agio for his old pure Joachim's thaler.
"Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II."
Gustav Freytag
The saddest feature was that honor, which was always in the agio, so to speak, was not always solid gold, but alloyed with baser metals.
"Bushido, the Soul of Japan"
Inazo Nitobé
It is not the legal peculiarity of money, as legal tender, which is necessarily responsible for this agio when it appears.
"The Value of Money"
Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr.