token money
noun[U]
MONEYukusnotesorcoinsfor which thevaluewritten on them isgreaterthan thevalueof thematerialsthey are made from
Examplesoftoken money
token money
Tokenmoneywas issued accordingly, and families purchased food at a large grocery store.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.From 1816, coins generally becametokenmoney, though some large silver and gold coins remained standard coins until 1927.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The cost of production oftokenmoneyis less than its actual value.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Most modern coins used in circulation aretokenmoney, as are paper notes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Another simulation oftokenmoneyis that of smart card money.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Tokenmoneyhas a strong privacy feature in that it works as money without the intervention of any other party in each transaction between two parties.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But we are told the position is safeguarded because they are only to betokenmoneyexchangeable for sterling at a fixed rate.
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The hitherto full-valued silver coinage from 2 francs downwards was changed intotokenmoney(being reduced to .
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However, astokenmoney, it is everywhere recognised as a circulating medium of trade.
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