The real bills doctrine asserts that it is an illusion that any physicallyinconvertiblecurrencyis necessarily also unbacked.
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I think that shows it is possible to have aninconvertiblecurrencywhich is generally acceptable.
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After seventeen years of aninconvertiblecurrencyspecie payments were resumed, without the slightest inconvenience to the commerce of the country.
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And in consequence, after nearly ten years of painful experience, they do not now understand how much they have suffered from theirinconvertiblecurrency.
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