What is "price current"

Price \Price\, n. [OE. pris, OF. pris, F. prix, L. pretium; cf. Gr. ? I sell ? to buy, Skr. pa? to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, Praise, n. & v., Precious, Prize.]

1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost. ``Buy wine and milk without money and without price.''
   --Isa. lv. 1.

   We can afford no more at such a price.
   --Shak.

2. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.

   Her price is far above rubies.
   --Prov. xxxi. 10.

   New treasures still, of countless price.
   --Keble.

3. Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.

   'T is the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil.
   --Pope.

   Price current, or Price list, a statement or list of the prevailing prices of merchandise, stocks, specie, bills of exchange, etc., published statedly or occasionally.