circulating medium

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We saw this exemplified in our travelling companions, land-seekers like ourselves, with the sole difference that, not being overburdened with the circulating medium, they had come without scrip.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various

These coupons were of no value as a circulating medium, and consequently would deprive the State of all means of carrying on the government if they were successful.

From Life Gleanings by Macon, T. J.

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.

It completely accomplished its object; and that object was to restore to a sound basis the currency of the country, and to give the people a uniform circulating medium.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel

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