token money
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
He further admits the necessity of some token money of small denominations, to be composed of the baser metals.
From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by O'Brien, George
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
This convention places in the front rank gold money, and reduces the pieces of silver of 2 francs and less to the r�le of token money.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
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.
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