gold certificates

gold certificates
A form of currency circulating in the United States prior to the withdrawal thereof from circulation by act of Congress in 1933, such certificates being backed by, and redeemable in, gold. 36 Am J1st Money § 16.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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