circulating medium

Example Sentences

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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.

During his Mayoralty, the city made an issue of paper money and this circulating medium brought no small relief to the people.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various

Little need there would be to go to any expense in getting out posters when there was such a splendid circulating medium close at hand.

From Fast Nine or, A Challenge from Fairfield by Douglas, Alan

Ordinarily, the laws of trade, of demand and supply, will regulate and equalize the distribution of the circulating medium over the country.

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.