The Treasury Department would buy the silver with new paper money that could be exchanged for silver or gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

committed that their paper money would always and at all times be redeemable in gold.

他们的纸币将一直能够每时每刻,用金子赎回来。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I was just seeing yesterday's paper-- someone was selling gold coins.

我昨天在报纸上读到一则广告,有些人在卖金币

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Everyone wanted gold. They took their paper money and their silver to the government and exchanged them for gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

That's how paper money got started, as bearer notes, because if you had gold with the goldsmith you could spend the note, at least within the town that you live in where the goldsmith was known and had a reputation.

纸币就以不记名票据的形式出现了,如果你的金子存在金匠那里,你可以直接支出这些票据,至少在你所居住的城镇可以这样做,因为金匠在本地有着并众所周知的信誉

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All of them produced large amounts of paper money -- many times the amount they could exchange for gold or silver.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

He noted how people throughout the nation had been exchanging their paper money and silver for gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

The government would pay for the silver with paper money -- treasury notes -- which could be exchanged for gold or silver money.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Some banks,however, did not have enough gold to support all the paper money they offered.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

It refused to accept the notes, or paper money, of these banks, unless the state banks were ready to exchange the paper for gold or silver money.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

The banks stopped honoring their promises to exchange their paper money for gold.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

This made it necessary for speculators to exchange their paper notes for gold.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

He noted that every major nation supported its paper money with gold.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Paper money was used to represent a nation's gold and silver holdings.

VOA: special.2010.06.17