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paper currency

n. currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie [syn: paper money, folding money]

Usage examples of "paper currency".

In the nineteenth century, paper currency had gained wide acceptance.

But soon enough even paper currency became too bulky to drag about, as well.

How much gold and silver would you need in order to convince that many human beings that your paper currency was actually worth some thing?

Individually they might joke that nobody really understood how it all worked, any more than any of them could explain the nature of God, but like theologians constantly trying to determine and communicate the nature of a deity, it was their job to keep things moving, to make the belief-structure real and tangible, never quite acknowledging that it all rested on nothing even as real as the paper currency they carried with them for the times when the use of a plastic credit card was inconvenient.

We derived a scheme for shattering the Nazi economy with an assault on the value of its paper currency.

Chase had then asked Congress to set up a national banking system so that the government might issue its own paper currency, a proposal which made him almost as nervous as it did the banking establishments.

The paper currency, already bundled by currency and denomination was .

Is a compulsory paper currency to be substituted in the place of the legal coin of this kingdom?

Six years later (such was his enterprise), he became the printer of paper currency of his adoptive state.

There were the ever-vexing complications of dealing in various colonial currencies of differing value, and the increasing worry over inflation and the fate of the new Continental money, the unbacked paper currency being produced in Philadelphia in steadily greater quantity.

He soon became intimately acquainted with the extent of the trade and resources of each, and daily more confirmed in his opinion that no country could prosper without a paper currency.