[f. as prec. + -IST.] One who advocates a metallic currency.
1811. Southey, Ess. (1832), I. 58. The vaunted discoveries of the bullionists and of the new political economists.
1828. Taylor, Money Syst. Eng., 110. The bullionists were opposed by Mr. Vansittart, on the part of the ministry.
a. 1852. Webster, Wks. (1877), I. 374. I profess to be a bullionist in the usual and acceptable sense of the word. I am for a solid specie basis for our circulation.
1878. N. Amer. Rev., CXXVII. 106. Ricardo, the high-priest of the bullionists.
