in specie
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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
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
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
But since 1551 there had been minted a Reichs gulden in specie equal to 72 kreutzers.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
Moratorium, mo-ra-tō′ri-um, n. an emergency act allowing a government bank to suspend payments in specie for a given time.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
