Agio is used in English as well. It is an Italian word denoting the difference of two numbers due to a diverging method of assessing it. It is thus most often u

Agio is used in English as well. It is an Italian word denoting the difference of two numbers due to a diverging method of assessing it. It is thus most often used to denote the money banks keep in various transactions. The meaning you specify in Dutch is most closely related to the use of agio to name the difference of the face value of silver coinage and their real metal content.