The Treasury Department would buy the silver with new paper money that could be exchanged for silver or gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

If you went to a store to buy something with paper money then the person at the ? would it be a cash register?

如果你用纸币去一家商店,买些东西，那么收银员,等等，那时会是个收银员吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That's how paper money got started, as bearer notes, because if you had gold with the goldsmith you could spend the note, at least within the town that you live in where the goldsmith was known and had a reputation.

纸币就以不记名票据的形式出现了,如果你的金子存在金匠那里,你可以直接支出这些票据,至少在你所居住的城镇可以这样做,因为金匠在本地有着并众所周知的信誉

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One bank in the state of Michigan offered paper money with a picture of a wildcat on it.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

In eighteen seventy-one, Germany declared that it would no longer support its paper money with silver.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

The government soon found itself with millions of dollars of paper money.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

He noted that every major nation supported its paper money with gold.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

It was paper money with his picture on it.

VOA: special.2009.12.14