fractional currency
Coins, not bills
Fractional currency is money worth less than the standard unit—in the U.S., coins or notes worth less than a dollar.
The term often refers specifically to paper money issued during the Civil War when coins were hoarded: The museum displayed fractional currency from the 1860s.
More broadly, it describes any subdivision of a currency's base unit.
- scripClaim certificate for shares
- Treasury DepartmentFederal agency managing government finances
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- emergency moneySavings for unforeseen crises
- coin shortageInsufficient circulating metal currency
denomination · face value · encased · engraving · provisional · numismatics · purchasing power · postage · paper stock · serial numbers · watermarking · liquidity · legal tender · printing press · tender · inflation · retail trade · worn
- small changecent, penny, nickel, dime, quarter
- numismaticscoin collecting, coin, coinage, coin collections, rare coins
- emergency moneyscrip
- coinspennies, leu, silver eagles, nickels, ban
- banknotespaper money, dollar bill, banknote, euro note, pound note
- money substitutesvouchers, tokens, coupons, gift cards, prepaid cards
denomination size
fractional currencybanknotes
Paper currency notes
paper currency · specie · hard money · paper money · folding money