bank note

Currency you fold

A bank note is a piece of paper money issued by a central bank, functioning as legal tender.

The term emphasizes the note's origin as a promise from the bank to pay the bearer: a crisp fifty-dollar bank note.

Also spelled as one word: banknote.

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funny money · paper money · greenback · dead presidents · legal tender · hologram · tenner · fiver · buck · Benjamin Franklin · denomination · Benjamin · folding money · walking around money · money clip · twenty · intaglio · clam

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physical form of currency

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Stamped metal currency

coinage · specie · hard money · loose change · nickel

tangibility of money

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Currency stored electronically

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Refined precious metal bars

silver bar · precious metal · gold coin · hard currency

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G