| 单词 | postage currency |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspostage currency postage currency n. U.S. (now historical) a paper currency of denominations less than a dollar, bearing a design depicting one or more postage stamps, which was issued during the American Civil War to replace the actual postage stamps then being used instead of lower denomination silver coin which was in short supply; see also postal currency n. at postal adj. and n. Compounds, postage-stamp currency n. at postage stamp n. and adj. Compounds 2, fractional currency at fractional adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > foreign banknotes > [noun] > U.S. long green1837 wild cat1861 greenback1862 postage currency1862 postage-stamp currency1862 postal currency1862 blueback1863 fractional note1863 greyback1863 yellowback1863 goldback1865 Sherman1892 1862 Chicago Tribune 22 Aug. 1/4 These [notes], as well as the postage currency, are delivered and distributed by the treasurer. 1946 J. T. Adams Album Amer. Hist. III. 135 The Treasury, without Congressional authorization, issued ‘Postage Currency’, which supplied the need for small change. 2004 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Nexis) 10 Apr. 9 d During the Civil War and a few years thereafter, the U.S. government accepted the use of stamps as currency, even printing a special ‘postage currency’ bearing the designs of stamps. < as lemmas |
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