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
Bank bills, treasury notes, bills of exchange, and all kinds of commercial paper are only valuable as the representatives of money.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
He then proceeded to speak of the bills of exchange in the possession of the Messrs Joyce, and seemed to be surprised that that House should be possessed of so many of them.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various
