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
The stream which, by means of those circulating bills of exchange, had once been made to run out from the coffers of the banks, was never replaced by any stream which really run into them.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain
Modern loaning on drafts and bills of exchange, the acceptance of which is forged with the knowledge of the creditor, corresponds to what Plutarch, Quaest.,
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm
