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
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
Rather, token money is the child of prices.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
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
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 William Graham Sumner
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