fractional currency

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   paper currency in denominations less than the basic monetary unit

   Broaderpaper money

Questions about fractional currency

What does fractional currency mean?

fractional currency means "paper currency in denominations less than the basic monetary unit".

Is fractional currency a common word?

fractional currency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.