meaning of gold standard system of foreign exchange 

In gold standard system, all countries were required to hold an adequate stock of gold. This is due to the reason that gold was the only medium to convert one currency in terms of other currency.
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acc to this system gold was taken as the common unit of parity between currencies of different countries in circulation.
each country was to define value of its currency in terms of gold .
accordingly, value of one currency in terms of other curreny was fixed considering gold value of each currency.
 
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