| 单词 | metallic currency |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmetallic currency c. Involving or consisting of coin as distinguished from paper money. Frequently in metallic currency. Cf. paper n. 4. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [adjective] > consisting of or in the form of coin metallic1790 coined1846 numismatic1847 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 346 They made a sort of swaggering declaration,..that there is no difference in value between metallic money and their assignats. View more context for this quotation 1823 H. T. Colebrooke in State Cape Good Hope 346 The paper [money] would be seasonably replaced by a metallic currency. 1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea vii. 109 Day by day, did he look with jealous eyes on the heaps of silver which he must not touch, and long for the security of metallic currency. 1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking ix. 193 America was..re-establishing a metallic currency. 1895 Daily News 2 Jan. 5/7 No transactions except on a metallic basis were possible. 1932 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 95 336 The metallic currency had fallen into a desperate state. There had been no recoinage of silver since 1601 and there were no good coins in circulation. 1993 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 59 636 Included regularly [in the inventories] were money scales, which were used for converting metallic currencies. < as lemmas |
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