This was how the oldest central banks, the Swedish Riksbank (1668) and the Bank of England (1694), came into being. Likewise, another wave of central banks was founded in the early nineteenth century, with the Norwegian and Finnish banks following the example of the Banque de France (1800).
与央行过去扮演的角色相比，保持价格基本不变是一项完全不同的任务。在起初央行的任务中，维持价格稳定根本不是一个明显的目的，这是因为货币的价值是由贵金属比值来衡量的。