circulating medium
Example Sentences
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As gold becomes plenty, it will be employed for other uses, sauce-pans perhaps, as well as for the increase of the circulating medium.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
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.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton
The circulating medium was brought to a sound basis.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson
If the object were to furnish a circulating medium, the legal tender treasury notes would have been a preferable currency.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
It was the first money I had ever earned—my only transactions with the circulating medium before that time, having been to spend it, as fast as it could be obtained from a fond father.
From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Charles A. Beach
