legal tender
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Pennies will remain legal tender, so they can still be used or exchanged for other cash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
All UK coins featuring the late Queen's profile remain legal tender and in active circulation, alongside her son's coins.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025
Suddenly I realized — a shock to the system! — you needed legal tender in order to live.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2025
Bitcoiners have come to love the currency’s adoption as legal tender in other countries, and the value of the central coin has become just as responsive to broader macroeconomic conditions as anything else.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2025
These categories imply that we find Everest to be covered in snow; we make today Thursday; and the bank decrees that this is legal tender.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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