Definition of silver certificate:
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Silver certificates are a type of representative money issued between 1878 and 1964 in the United States as part of its circulation of paper currency.
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Cuban silver certificates were banknotes issued by the Cuban government between 1934 and 1949 (and circulated from 1935 to the early 1950s).
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A silver certificate is a certificate of ownership that silver owners hold instead of storing the actual silver.