Consumers' Friend Inc. - dated 1973 American Bank Note Specimen - Loss of Paper at Top and Right Edge - Like a Gift Certificate

Loss of paper at top and right edge, otherwise very nice condition. Consumers' Friend Inc. specimen gift check printed by American Bank Note Company. Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context. The primary functions which distinguish money are: medium of exchange, a unit of account, a store of value and sometimes, a standard of deferred payment.

Money was historically an emergent market phenomenon that possessed intrinsic value as a commodity; nearly all contemporary money systems are based on unbacked fiat money without use value. Its value is consequently derived by social convention, having been declared by a government or regulatory entity to be legal tender; that is, it must be accepted as a form of payment within the boundaries of the country, for "all debts, public and private", in the case of the United States dollar. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money

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