Consider a country Atlantica, using dollars ($) as its currency. If this country sets a price for gold, and then issues currency such that the amount in circulation is equivalent to the value of gold held in reserve, it is said to be following:

a. a gold exchange standard.
b. a gold standard.
c. a reserve currency standard.
d. a crawling peg standard.
e. a currency board standard.

b

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