Recent Examples on the WebTo encourage the moral character of New Atlantans, Leicester introduced a monetary unit called the scruple.—Fred Nadis, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024 Under a genuine gold standard, a monetary unit is defined as a specific quantity of gold.—William J. Luther and Alexander William Salter, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2021 Olmec, Toltec, Maya, Aztec—that found ways to exploit the bean, which was variously used as a monetary unit, a measuring unit and a meal.—Franz Lidz, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019 Rather than paying retailers directly with the digital money, Coinbase charges users a fee to convert other monetary units into a digital currency.—SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2019
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