circulating medium

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We saw this exemplified in our travelling companions, land-seekers like ourselves, with the sole difference that, not being overburdened with the circulating medium, they had come without scrip.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various

Can such notes be constituted a legitimate circulating medium having a defined legal value?

From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.

The Christian is, so to speak, the circulating medium of Christ, the coin of the realm by whom the great transactions of mercy and grace to a lost world are carried on.

From Thoughts for the Quiet Hour by Various

But his effort to contract and steady the circulating medium excited protests from a community that was growing rich in the rapid inflation of values.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.

It thus appears that this people must have had a circulating medium in the shape of gold coin.

From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray