legal tender

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Utah, a state with a long mining legacy, was the first to reaffirm gold and silver as legal tender in 2011.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Last year, the country welcomed a record 3.9 million tourists, including cryptocurrency evangelists drawn by Bukele’s short-lived experiment in making Bitcoin legal tender.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2025

Suddenly I realized — a shock to the system! — you needed legal tender in order to live.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2025

Cash is legal tender in the UK, but businesses are not obliged to serve people who only want to pay with notes and coins.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 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