circulating medium

Example Sentences

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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 Beach, Charles A.

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

From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler

Taking it in connection with the combination of corporations, and Wall street brokers, the prospect of having coin as a circulating medium is but faint, if it is ever possible.

From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.

It thus appears that this people must have had a circulating medium in the shape of gold coin.

From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray

But his effort to contract and steady the circulating medium excited protests from a community that was growing rich in the rapid inflation of values.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.