circulating medium

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It will give assurance to our languishing industries that the volume of our circulating medium is not to continue shrinking, and that the tendency of prices shall no longer be downward.

From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by Jones, John P. (John Percival)

Indeed, they are used as a kind of circulating medium.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.

Showing the radical deficiency of the present circulating medium and the advantages of a free currency.

From Anarchism by Eltzbacher, Paul

During his Mayoralty, the city made an issue of paper money and this circulating medium brought no small relief to the people.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various

Constitutional powers, of the kind last mentioned—that is, the power to ordain a standard of value and to provide a circulating medium for a legal tender—are subject to no mutations of any kind.

From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.