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Webster 1913 Edition
Agio
Ag′i-o
,Noun.
pl.
Agios
. [It.
aggio
exchange, discount, premium, the same word as agio
ease. See Ease.] (Com.)
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Agio
A'GIO
, n.1.
In commerce, the difference between bank notes and current coin. In Holland, the agio is three or four per cent; in Rome, from fifteen to twenty five per cent; in Venice, twenty per cent: but the agio is subject to variation.2.
Premium; sum given above the nominal value.