currency money
Currency money is money in full circulation that takes its value from the precious metal it contains, that is, its market value is (almost) the value of the metal it contains (apart from the Seigniorage or the minters' profit), though this is always overcompensated for in coins and banknotes from a country undergoing debasement. Usually made of silver or gold, but in very rare cases plated metal and even copper may be used. Currency or face value coins are a type of commodity money, money whose value is derived from the what it is or what it is made of (e.g. shell, cigarettes, tea or a certain metal) as opposed to coins whose metal value is less than their nominal value, paper money, and deposit or book money, which are fiat money.
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- 1.Richard Klimpert (Hrsg.), Lexikon der Münzen, Maße, Gewichte Zählarten und Zeitgrößen, 1896, S. 193
- 2.Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden (Hrsg.), Kompakt-Lexikon Wirtschaftspolitik, 2013, S. 244
- 3.Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden (Hrsg.), Kompakt-Lexikon Wirtschaftspolitik, 2013, S. 355
- 4.Ralph Anderegg, Grundzüge der Geldtheorie und Geldpolitik, 2007, S. 8
- 5.Rainer Sommer, Es werde Geld … (Telepolis): Zur Theorie und Geschichte des Geldes, 2014, o. S.
- 6.Julius Cahn, Münz- und Geldgeschichte der Stadt Straßburg im Mittelalter, 1895, S. 48
- 7.Alfred Schirmer, Wörterbuch der deutschen Kaufmannssprache auf geschichtlichen Grundlagen, 1911, S. 115
- 8.Otto Basler, Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch, Band I, 1913, S. 412
- 9.Werner Ehrlicher/Ingeborg Esenwein-Rothe/Harald Jürgensen/Klaus Rose (Hrsg.), Kompendium der Volkswirtschaftslehre, Band I, 1975, S. 354; ISBN 3-525-13143-7
- 10.Hiram Kümper, Materialwissenschaft Mediävistik, 2014, S. 201
- 11.Adam Smith, Der Wohlstand der Nationen, 1776. S. 261
- 12.Adam Smith, Der Wohlstand der Nationen, 1776. S. 260.
- 13.Gustav Freytag: Bilder aus der deutschen Vergangenheit, Band 3, 1892, S. 153.
- 14.Verlag Th. Gabler GmbH (Hrsg.), Bank-Lexikon: Handwörterbuch für das Bank- und Sparkassenwesen, 1978, Sp. 302 f.
- 15.Ute Arentzen/Eggert Winter, Gabler Wirtschafts-Lexikon, Band 3, 1997, S. 2690
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