agio

(Latin aggio - excess) -1) the excess of market rates of banknotes, bills or securities over their face value; 2) an increase in the price of shares on the exchanges of other countries in comparison with the rate on national exchanges; 3) in transactions with gold coins: the difference between the value of the metal and the exchange value of the coin; 3) the deviation of the market price of gold, expressed in paper money, in the direction of excess in comparison with the number of paper banknotes nominally representing a given amount of gold; 4) a positive difference between the price of a cash commodity and the price of a commodity under a futures transaction; 5) commissions charged for the exchange of paper money for gold or for the exchange of a "weak" currency for a "strong" one. A. corresponds to the same. the concept of crap.