paper money
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Paper-money currencies, like BerkShares or the Lewes or Totnes Pound, slip fairly seamlessly into the national economy; their use is taxed like ordinary money.
From Time Magazine Archive
Drouet scans the new Assignat; compares the Paper-money Picture with the Gross-Head in round hat there: by Day and Night! you might say the one was an attempted Engraving of the other.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Our Revenue is Assignats; emission on emission of Paper-money.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Paper-money seems, at this period, to have given place to silver, which, however, from several circumstances mentioned, must have been very scarce.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by Stevenson, William
The Farmer's rent is Paper-money, and he alone of men has bread: Farmer is better than Landlord, and will himself become Landlord.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
