in specie
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One soldier in the Continental Army, Joseph Plumb Martin, recounted how he received no pay in paper money after 1777 and only one month’s payment in specie, or hard currency, in 1781.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
During the War of 1812, the Bank of the United States had suspended payments in specie, “hard money” usually in the form of gold and silver coins.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
In the return cargo there would have been at least a million in specie.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
How far Solids less grave in specie than water, do submerge.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo
Of course, this price having been once fixed, the natives will not take less, that is, in specie.
From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
