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 School, A Sexton of the Old
This became book or bank money, and the actually circulating medium was rated to it at a certain discount.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
Its establishment originated in the imperious obligation imposed on every government to furnish its people with a circulating medium for their commerce.
From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel
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 Cloud, D. C.
Indeed, they are used as a kind of circulating medium.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
