token money
Britishnoun
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“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 result, of course, was to make silver the standard and gold the fluctuating money or token money.
From If Not Silver, What? by John W. Bookwalter
Rather, token money is the child of prices.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
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 George Thompson Fairchild
He further admits the necessity of some token money of small denominations, to be composed of the baser metals.
From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by George O'Brien
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