bills of exchange
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An increasingly international network of financiers had created their own private money – of IOUs or bills of exchange – which allowed them to abandon sovereigns' money altogether.
From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2013
For example, bills of exchange established exchange rates between different coinage systems.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Baker, it turned out, had forged the signatures of Docker and Mann to the bills of exchange.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir, Enclosed you have a list of sundry bills of exchange drawn on you.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various
This bank was more liberal then any other had ever been, both in granting cash-accounts, and in discounting bills of exchange.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain
