| Its foremost vehicle in continental Europe is the issue of non-redeemable legal tender banknotes. |
| If Robinson Crusoe had been shipwrecked with a chest full of British banknotes, they wouldn't have done him any good. |
| He looked at the worn banknotes doubled over in his jacket pocket and slowly counted them out. |
| He kept the state treasure in banknotes in a shoebox beneath his bed, where it was devalued from time to time by the gnawing of rats. |
| Faull added that the majority of people did not believe in the value of banknotes, right up until the late 19th century. |
| Then, along came a little man with a wad of banknotes who snapped up the laptop and went off congratulating himself. |
