paper moneyn.

?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 157 (MED) He [sc. the Grete Caan] maketh no money but of lether emprinted or of papyre.]

1669 W. Aglionby Present State United Provinces Low-Countries iii. vii. 244 They made Paper-money, with this Inscription, Hac libertatis ergo pugno pro patria, &c. which is to say, We endure all these miseries for our liberty and our Countrey.

1691 C. Mather Consid. Bills Credit in A. M. Davis Tracts (1902) 13 I therefore cannot a little wonder at the great indiscretion of our Countrymen who Refuse to accept that, which they call Paper-Mony, as pay of equal value with the best Spanish Silver.

1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn sig. A5 We have improved Paper Credit, and turn'd it into Paper-Money, by giving Notes and Bills the privilege of a new Specie of Coin, and using them for making of most great payments.

1713 Boston News-let. 20 July 2/2 One Berry a Taylor and one James Mark who lately came from Boston and Rhode-Island, are in Goal [sic] for Counterfeiting our Paper Money.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 350 There are several different sorts of paper money; but the circulating notes of banks and bankers are the species which is best known. View more context for this quotation

a1862 J. Ayliff Jrnl. of ‘Harry Hastings’ (1963) 82 All was barter, or to receive what were called good-fors, a kind of paper money which the merchants had the power of issuing.

1886 Manch. Examiner 13 Mar. 5/2 The only use of paper money is in saving the wear and tear of gold.

1925 Scribner's Mag. July 55/2 It is absolutely necessary to maintain the present gold reserve,..to insure gold value and a free gold redemption for the paper money.

1976 J. Lukasiewicz Railway Game iv. 27 But, like other forms of the extension of public credit, such as the issue of paper money, state guarantees are difficult to keep within bounds, and compel ever-fresh extensions to save the old liability.

1994 Amer. Scholar Winter 50 Congress had issued paper money, loan certificates,..and a variety of other notes.

1704 tr. D. Fernández Navarrete Acct. Empire China ii. viii, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. I. 80/1 They burn Statues of Men, Women, Horses, Saddles, other things, and abundance of Paper-money. All which things they believe in the next life are converted into real ones, for the use of the Party deceas'd.

1894 R. K. Douglas Society in China xii. 223 As the [funeral] procession advances, paper money is scattered on all sides to appease the hunger of any destitute ghosts which may be haunting the road.

1926 C. H. Plopper Chinese Relig. seen through Prov. iv. 89 The water used in washing a corpse must be paid for... This is accomplished by burning paper money to the Dragon King at the well or pond, before taking the water.

2013 Shanghai Daily (Nexis) 5 Apr. [She] went to a cemetery to commemorate her father by burning paper money in front of the osmanthus tree under which his ashes are buried.