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paper currency

noun as in folding money

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To stimulate purchases, the government began issuing a paper currency called assignat.

Add one more to the roster: his early work in printing colonial paper currency designed to counter a constant threat of counterfeiting.

As part of the deception, the Nazis allowed the creation of a Bank of Jewish Self-Administration, which issued paper currency depicting Moses holding the Ten Commandments.

Protesters targeted facilities of some banks accused of withholding the new banknotes ahead of the Feb. 10 deadline for people to deposit their old paper currency and use the redesigned version instead.

Today, the 92-year-old Democrat’s signature appears on more U.S. paper currency than that of any other person.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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