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 Bookwalter, John W.
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.
If different groups adopt different kinds of amulet ornaments as money, such intragroup money may be token money.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
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
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