Assignat
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An assignat was a monetary instrument, an order to pay, used during the time of the French Revolution, and the French Revolutionary Wars.
Assignat from the 1792 issue: 400 livres
Assignat of 4 Jan 1792, still bearing Royal markings: 15 sols
An eight-paoli Roman Republic assignat (1798).
Russian assignation ruble (1807)
Fiat money
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Fiat money or fiat currency is a type of government-issued currency, generally created by a central bank, authorized by government regulation to be legal tender but not backed by a precious metal, suc
Assignat
…a monetary instrument, an order to pay, used during the time of the French Revolution, and the French Revolutionary Wars. Assignats were paper money (fiat currency) authorized by the Constituent Assembly in France from 1789 to 1796, during the French Revolution, to address imminent bankruptcy. They were originally…
Yuan dynasty banknotes are a medieval form of fiat money. This banknote has a value of èr guàn (貳貫) printed on it, where 貳 is the version of the word "two" used in financial writing, and 貫 is a unit of measure called a string of cash coins. Directly under the words "貳貫" are a picture of 2 circular strings of cash coins, visually depicting the physical currency value represented by this banknote.
Song dynasty Jiaozi, the world's earliest paper money