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Bruce could get unlimited credit for goods, on the reputation of his father’s wealth, but money-dealers were very sharp-eyed people, and he found it much less easy to get his promissory-notes cashed.

From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

In almost every town where there was any employment of labour the tradesmen were obliged to issue token money of their own—shilling tokens, sixpenny tokens, half-crown and five-shilling promissory-notes.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur