bill of exchange

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A Dunlap broadside, along with a Yiddish-language letter and a bill of exchange, was sent overseas by the Jewish merchant Jonas Phillips to a relative in Amsterdam.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Richard Smith, freshly arrived from England, comes bearing a formidable bill of exchange, requiring that the town bank hand over the fabulous amount of one thousand pounds sterling.

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2017

Italian merchants of the 14th century, for example, rather than the bureaucrats of China, devised the essential principles of accounting like double-entry bookkeeping and such financial devices as the bill of exchange and limited liability.

From Time Magazine Archive

A "forcible bill of exchange" for all credit sales, costing up to $200 on a transaction involving $50,000, would yield another $1,000,000, and a 5% tax on capital leaving the island $1,100,000 more.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is evident that the bill of exchange travels as much more conveniently than a bag of money, as the bag of money travels more conveniently than the goods which it represents.

From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles