circulating medium

The electoral mandate stiffened Jackson’s resolve to kill the “monster” in whose control over “the circulating medium” resided the “power to increase or diminish the price of property and to levy taxes on the people in the shape of premiums and interest.”

This would regulate the currency by furnishing a circulating medium, and constitute a basis on which loans could be obtained.

It was this picture that gave occasion for one of John Van Buren's noted sayings that were once a circulating medium in the lawyers' offices of New York.

This adoption of the precious metals as the subject of coinage,—the material of money by all peoples in all ages of the world,—has not been the result of any vagaries of fancy, but is attributable to the fact that they of all metals alone possess the properties which are essential to a circulating medium of uniform value.

The circulating medium of the country is, in legal tender notes, $356,000,000.