token money

British  

noun

1. coins of the regular issue having greater face value than the value of their metal content

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Example Sentences

“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.

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

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.

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 Fairchild, George Thompson