gold certificate
Americannoun
noun
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a currency note issued exclusively to the Federal Reserve Banks by the US Treasury. It forms a claim on gold reserves deposited by the Federal Reserve Banks at the Treasury and is used to transfer interbank balances within the Federal Reserve System
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Also called: gold note. (formerly) a banknote issued by the US Treasury to the public and redeemable in gold
Etymology
Origin of gold certificate
An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
Example Sentences
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A detective tapped him for weapons, found a "hot" $20 gold certificate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pennycuick traced Cashel's route from Belt's to near Calgary with Belt's clothes, horse, saddle and the aforesaid $50.00 gold certificate.
From Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth
The use of the gold certificate saves the loss of the gold that comes through abrasion when handled.
From Business Hints for Men and Women by Alfred Rochefort Calhoun
One at a time, please," says I. "The amount o' the cash transaction was a twenty-dollar gold certificate.
From Gullible's Travels, Etc. by Ring Lardner
No discrimination is made between the gold and silver dollar, or between the United States note, the treasury note, the silver certificate, or the gold certificate.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
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