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representative money
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Representative money
The term representative money has been used variously to mean:
- A claim on a commodity, for example gold certificates or silver certificates. In this sense it may be called "commodity-backed money".
- Any type of money that has face value greater than its value as material substance. Used in this sense, fiat money is a type of representative money.
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