Gresham's law

Gresham's law - monetary principle on circulating currency; "bad money drives out good". Article “Gresham's law” in English Wikipedia has 46.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 36 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in Dutch Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Gresham's law” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Gresham's law”, its content was written by 324 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 953 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 173 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1072 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1968 in December 2002
• Global: #2745 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #45327 in March 2020
• Global: #46714 in September 2008

There are 29 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Dutch (nl) Wet van Gresham		49.8016
2	English (en) Gresham's law		46.6096
3	Chinese (zh) 劣幣驅逐良幣		45.5561
4	German (de) Greshamsches Gesetz		39.2813
5	Uzbek (uz) Gresham qonuni		31.6699
6	Indonesian (id) Hukum Gresham		29.4073
7	Ukrainian (uk) Закон Грешема		28.6027
8	French (fr) Loi de Gresham		24.7033
9	Russian (ru) Закон Коперника — Грешема		22.9029
10	Czech (cs) Greshamův zákon		22.1214

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Gresham's law" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gresham's law		2 552 943
2	Japanese (ja) グレシャムの法則		744 672
3	Chinese (zh) 劣幣驅逐良幣		624 892
4	Spanish (es) Ley de Gresham		354 178
5	Polish (pl) Prawo Kopernika-Greshama		331 384
6	French (fr) Loi de Gresham		227 130
7	Russian (ru) Закон Коперника — Грешема		189 602
8	German (de) Greshamsches Gesetz		185 074
9	Italian (it) Legge di Gresham		156 343
10	Korean (ko) 그레셤의 법칙		104 779

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Gresham's law" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gresham's law		12 433
2	Japanese (ja) グレシャムの法則		3 696
3	Chinese (zh) 劣幣驅逐良幣		2 047
4	Korean (ko) 그레셤의 법칙		795
5	Polish (pl) Prawo Kopernika-Greshama		651
6	German (de) Greshamsches Gesetz		650
7	Russian (ru) Закон Коперника — Грешема		616
8	Spanish (es) Ley de Gresham		591
9	French (fr) Loi de Gresham		536
10	Italian (it) Legge di Gresham		534

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Gresham's law" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gresham's law		324
2	German (de) Greshamsches Gesetz		79
3	French (fr) Loi de Gresham		68
4	Chinese (zh) 劣幣驅逐良幣		57
5	Dutch (nl) Wet van Gresham		47
6	Italian (it) Legge di Gresham		46
7	Spanish (es) Ley de Gresham		42
8	Russian (ru) Закон Коперника — Грешема		42
9	Japanese (ja) グレシャムの法則		35
10	Polish (pl) Prawo Kopernika-Greshama		33

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Gresham's law" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Portuguese (pt) Lei de Gresham		3
2	English (en) Gresham's law		2
3	German (de) Greshamsches Gesetz		1
4	Arabic (ar) قانون كريشام		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Qreşem qanunu		0
6	Catalan (ca) Llei de Gresham		0
7	Czech (cs) Greshamův zákon		0
8	Danish (da) Greshams lov		0
9	Spanish (es) Ley de Gresham		0
10	Persian (fa) قانون گرشام		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Gresham's law" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Portuguese (pt) Lei de Gresham		200
2	English (en) Gresham's law		173
3	Russian (ru) Закон Коперника — Грешема		152
4	Ukrainian (uk) Закон Грешема		107
5	Chinese (zh) 劣幣驅逐良幣		57
6	Japanese (ja) グレシャムの法則		51
7	German (de) Greshamsches Gesetz		48
8	Korean (ko) 그레셤의 법칙		42
9	Spanish (es) Ley de Gresham		33
10	French (fr) Loi de Gresham		33

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قانون كريشام
az	Azerbaijani Qreşem qanunu
ca	Catalan Llei de Gresham
cs	Czech Greshamův zákon
da	Danish Greshams lov
de	German Greshamsches Gesetz
en	English Gresham's law
es	Spanish Ley de Gresham
fa	Persian قانون گرشام
fi	Finnish Greshamin laki
fr	French Loi de Gresham
he	Hebrew חוק גרשאם
hi	Hindi ग्रेशम का नियम
id	Indonesian Hukum Gresham
it	Italian Legge di Gresham
ja	Japanese グレシャムの法則
ko	Korean 그레셤의 법칙
nl	Dutch Wet van Gresham
pl	Polish Prawo Kopernika-Greshama
pt	Portuguese Lei de Gresham
ro	Romanian Legea lui Gresham
ru	Russian Закон Коперника — Грешема
simple	Simple English Gresham's law
sv	Swedish Greshams lag
tr	Turkish Gresham Yasası
uk	Ukrainian Закон Грешема
uz	Uzbek Gresham qonuni
vi	Vietnamese Định luật Gresham
zh	Chinese 劣幣驅逐良幣

Best Rank

English: #45327 03.2020

Global: #46714 09.2008

Best Rank

English: #1968 12.2002

Global: #2745 03.2002

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