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.
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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
Our Revenue is Assignats; emission on emission of Paper-money.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
"Six thousand livres," answered he: some three hundred pounds sterling, in Paper-money.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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
