token money

British  

noun

1. coins of the regular issue having greater face value than the value of their metal content

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Example Sentences

“By the same token, money and respect were more than enough consolation for having a pack of insecure neurotics dislike me.”

From Forbes • Aug. 7, 2015

The use of token money, in which a part of the value is imaginary, always implies the inclosure of a group and the exclusion of foreign trade.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

The permitted manufacture of token money came to an end with the year 1817, an Act coming into force Jan.

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Harman, Thomas T.

This feeling often leads to the use of a currency without value, like the token money used for change in the absence of legal coins.

From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson

But, in that case, they would be, not primary, self-sustaining money, but merely representative, or token money.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.