honest money

Not only were other inmates inspired by his ability to turn time into honest money, Dixon could afford to be a peacemaker.

The pay wasn’t much, but Winans liked the feeling of honest money.

Honest money and a simpler tax system, which doesn’t pander to special interest groups, would fix most of the above.

“No. But it’s honest money, that’s for sure.”

Few people made honest money from Death Valley mines, at least until the borax business came in, at the turn of the twentieth century.