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
Currency, in a large and perhaps just sense, includes not only gold and silver and bank bills, but bills of exchange also.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
The secret export of money still continued, and it was again proposed to register bills of exchange, and also to make Spanish and French coins current in the country.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
