Notes
Paper money and notes are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Paper money" instead a noun "Notes".
Paper money
Paper money noun - Currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie.
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Notes and paper money are semantically related. You can use "Notes" instead a noun phrase "Paper money".
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- In the Discworld novel Making Money, when the concept of paper money catches on to a even greater extent than Moist expected, he concludes "We're going to need some bigger notes."
Source: Gonna Need More X - United States Notes, and Federal Reserve Notes before 1963, were redeemable in "lawful money," which was never defined by Congress; the only difference between these two types of paper money was that one was issued directly by the U.S.
Source: Useful Notes / American Money - Modern Federal Reserve Notes, which have been the only sort of paper money issued by the US Government since 1963, are fiat currency - their value is not backed by any hard resource, but by the "full faith and credit" of the U.S. Government.
Source: Useful Notes / American Money
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