In such an instance, a return to the old currency denomination would mean an instant devaluation of their cash.

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They can borrow and lend using the gold-linked currency of denomination, or simply use it as a basis for pricing goods and services.

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Dutch painters of the era maintained dizzyingly exalted standards of excellence across a range of genres, working for a market in which history paintings functioned as large-denomination currency and still-lifes were useful small change.

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Another shows what appears to be a large quantity of high-denomination euro currency notes.

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