in specie
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One soldier in the Continental Army, Joseph Plumb Martin, recounted how he received no pay in paper money after 1777 and only one month’s payment in specie, or hard currency, in 1781.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
During the War of 1812, the Bank of the United States had suspended payments in specie, “hard money” usually in the form of gold and silver coins.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Thus the trust consisting in specie, must be returned in the same specie.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul
One of the above named Solids, when more grave in specie than the water, can never be sustained, by any whatever quantity of it.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo
Of course, this price having been once fixed, the natives will not take less, that is, in specie.
From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
