bills of exchange
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An increasingly international network of financiers had created their own private money – of IOUs or bills of exchange – which allowed them to abandon sovereigns' money altogether.
From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2013
For example, bills of exchange established exchange rates between different coinage systems.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Baker, it turned out, had forged the signatures of Docker and Mann to the bills of exchange.
From Time Magazine Archive
M. D'Ogeron, the134 governor, treating him as a wayward child, taking away his money, sent him back to France with bills of exchange for the amount.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
Sir, I have received the letter, with which you yesterday honored me, and the account of the bills of exchange drawn on Dr Franklin.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume X (of 12) by Various
