circulating medium

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They pictured forth the lamentable results that would follow its passage, and the direful consequences that would ensue from an increase of the circulating medium of the country.

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)

But his effort to contract and steady the circulating medium excited protests from a community that was growing rich in the rapid inflation of values.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.

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.

It was this picture that gave occasion for one of John Van Buren's noted sayings that were once a circulating medium in the lawyers' offices of New York.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

This would regulate the currency by furnishing a circulating medium, and constitute a basis on which loans could be obtained.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler