silver certificate

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   formerly a bank note issued by the United States Treasury and redeemable in silver

   Broaderbill

Questions about silver certificate

What does silver certificate mean?

silver certificate means "formerly a bank note issued by the United States Treasury and redeemable in silver".

Is silver certificate a common word?

silver certificate 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.