paper currency
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Paper currency is money in the form of government-issued notes rather than coins or digital funds.
Bills, banknotes, and cash all refer to paper currency.
Though increasingly displaced by electronic payments, it remains essential for everyday transactions: I prefer to carry paper currency when traveling abroad.
The term distinguishes physical notes from other forms of money.
- banknotesPaper currency notes
- folding moneyPaper bills, not coins
- fiat moneyLegal tender by decree
- watermarkTranslucent authentication mark
- legal tenderOfficially recognized payment medium
cold hard cash · treasury notes · Bretton Woods system · microprinting · sawbuck · engraving · serial numbers · central bank · holograms · inflation · funny money · Benjamin · intaglio · substrate · counterfeiting · printing press · wallet · money clip
- colonial moneySpanish dollar, piece of eight, pieces of eight, wampum, shilling
- currencydollar, euro, pound, yen, peso
- US currencydollar, dollar bills, penny, dollars, nickel
- paper moneybanknote, banknotes, bank note, bank notes, dollar bill
- Money Historymoney, coins, coinage, gold coins, silver coinage
- security featureswatermark, holograms, hologram, security tape, UV ink
paper currencycoins
Metal money units
coinage · specie · hard money · bullion · gold coins
paper currencydigital currency
Currency stored electronically
electronic money · cryptocurrency · virtual currency · e-money · Bitcoin
paper, papers, currency, papered, wallpaper, papyrus, papering, papery, tissue paper