bills of exchange
- Resource class
- Concept
- preferred label
- bills of exchange
- definition
- This concept referes historically to a form of paper currency used in Europe from the late medieval to the early modern period often as credit among merchants. It now refers to written orders to pay a specific sum of money on demand or at a specified future time; used with reference to foreign transactions; for similar orders to pay usually restricted to domestic transactions, use "drafts (negotiable instruments)."
- is in scheme
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Media of Exchange
- has broader
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orders to pay
- has exact match
- bills of exchange