Specie may refer to: *

Coin A coin is a small, flat (usually depending on the country or value), round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in orde ...

s or other metal money in mass circulation * Bullion coins * Hard money (policy) *

Commodity money Commodity money is money whose value comes from a commodity of which it is made. Commodity money consists of objects having value or use in themselves (intrinsic value) as well as their value in buying goods. This is in contrast to representat ...

* Specie Circular, 1836 executive order by US President Andrew Jackson regarding hard money * Specie Payment Resumption Act

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