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 permitted manufacture of token money came to an end with the year 1817, an Act coming into force Jan.

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Harman, Thomas T.

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.

In almost every town where there was any employment of labour the tradesmen were obliged to issue token money of their own—shilling tokens, sixpenny tokens, half-crown and five-shilling promissory-notes.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur