| 单词 | postage-stamp currency |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspostage-stamp currency postage-stamp currency n. U.S. (now historical) = postage currency n. at postage n.1 Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > foreign banknotes > [noun] > U.S. long green1837 wild cat1861 greenback1862 postage currency1862 postage-stamp currency1862 postal currency1862 blueback1863 fractional note1863 greyback1863 yellowback1863 goldback1865 Sherman1892 1862 Chicago Tribune 16 July 2/5 There is a general concurrence of views throughout the whole country in regard to postage stamp currency... Why not inaugurate it at once? 1862 Boston Evening Transcript 1 Aug. 2/3 The Postmaster-General and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue have approved of the specimens of the postage stamp currency, which will be for five, ten, twenty-five and fifty cents. 1863 Times 11 May 7/1 The postage-stamp currency was issued under a contract expressly printed on the stamps themselves. 1994 Washington Times (Nexis) 4 June b3 It was about this time [1862] that Mrs. Spinner went shopping and used her stamps for change... Thus was created the first experimental ‘postage stamp’ currency. < as lemmas |
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