national currency
State-issued legal tender
National currency is the official money issued by a country's government or central bank, used as legal tender within its borders: The euro replaced several national currencies when it was adopted.
Countries typically require taxes and debts to be paid in their national currency.
The term often appears in discussions of exchange rates, monetary policy, or economic sovereignty: Argentina's national currency has experienced severe inflation.
- central bankNational currency management institution
- money printingCreating new currency supply
- fiat moneyLegal tender by decree
- foreign exchange marketCurrency trading marketplace
- banknotesPaper currency notes
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- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
- Money Historymoney, coins, coinage, gold coins, silver coinage
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- paper moneybanknote, banknotes, bank note, bank notes, dollar bill
- symbolssymbols, runes, symbol, asterisks, glyph
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Other nations' legal tender
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Encrypted decentralized money
Bitcoin · digital currency · alternative currency · virtual currency · barter
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