wildcat currency

plural wildcat currencies

1. Synonym of wildcat money.

   Mr. KORBLY. Not the Suffolk Bank currency? You would not call that wildcat currency?

   1913, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency Reform, page 427

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   The loss from "shin plasters," however, was small compared with the loss from the worthless "wildcat currency."

   1914, Frederick Lyman Hitchcock, History of Scranton and Its People - Volume 1, page 408

   Apart from wildcat currency, note holders were exposed to counterfeits, notes of banks that had ceased to exist, and notes that, although issued by solvent banks, had depreciated in value.

   1997, Emmanuel Roussakis, Commercial Banking in an Era of Deregulation, page 31

   Synonyms: wildcat money