legal tender

If so, why do the rest of us have to put up with legal-tender paper money?

It was not practicable to deny a legal-tender value to so much Mexican, and Spanish-Philippine coin in circulation.

I don't suppose our greenbacks would be a legal tender with them.

This would involve, of course, the possible inflation of legal tender currency to the amount of outstanding bonds.

This quality of being a legal tender was the only respect in which these notes differ from those signed by an individual.

Clothed with sovereignty, it had, or at least exercised, the power to make its notes a legal tender.