token money

How to use token money in a sentence

• Gold disappeared in countries where gold coins were used; paper money and silver token money took its place.

  Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII | Various

• If different groups adopt different kinds of amulet ornaments as money, such intragroup money may be token money.

  Folkways | William Graham Sumner

• The result, of course, was to make silver the standard and gold the fluctuating money or token money.

  If Not Silver, What? | John W. Bookwalter

• However, as token money, it is everywhere recognised as a circulating medium of trade.

  The Silversmith's Handbook | George E. Gee

• You know our money is but token money, and not worth the face value of the stamp.

  The Serf | Guy Thorne