Sentence examples for physical currency from inspiring English sources

Every day millions of dollars in physical currency is moved around the globe for a variety of reasons.

Before 2008, it was responsible for setting interest rates, keeping gold in its vaults, and deciding what our physical currency looked like.

Yet a growing group of theorists is embracing the idea that physical currency should be the exception rather than the rule".

The euro was adopted as a currency peg by the relevant countries in 1999, and came into use as an actual physical currency on New Year's Day, 2002.

The most extreme example is a piece of physical currency, which in America is described as "legal tender for all debts public and private".

If people hold their savings as physical currency, it keeps its value – and in a period of deflation the spending power of hoarded cash increases, even as share prices and the value of bank deposits fall.

The value of Bitcoins relative to physical currencies fluctuated wildly in the years following its introduction.

Owners of Bitcoins can use various Web sites to trade them for physical currencies, such as U.S. dollars or euros, or can exchange them for goods and services from a number of vendors.

Many physical currencies have been used historically -- from beads, sea-shells to precious metals such as gold or silver, to even consumables such as cigarettes in times of hyperinflations, to sports cards.

There are about 12 million Bitcoins in circulation as of now – they exist not as physical units of currency but as a denomination expressed by software – and can be used for internet-based purchases of pretty much anything from books to bicycles.

Passengers in Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, and Morrocco  have the option to pay in physical or digital currency.