1. Coins of regular issue whose face value is greater than their intrinsic value
   "The government issued token money to replace the silver coins during the economic crisis"

Type of: boodle [informal], brass [Brit, informal], bread [informal], cabbage [US, informal], clams [US, informal], coin [US, informal], dibs [archaic, informal], dinero [N. Amer, informal], dosh [Brit, informal], dough [informal], gelt [informal], kale [US, informal], lettuce [US, informal], lolly [Brit, informal], loot [informal], lucre [informal], mazuma [US, informal], money, moola [N. Amer, informal], moolah [N. Amer, informal], pelf [archaic, informal], scratch [informal], shekels [informal], simoleons [US, informal], spondulicks [Brit, informal], spondulix [Brit, informal], sugar [informal], wampum [N. Amer, informal], wonga [Brit, informal]

Encyclopedia: Token money