Hard money (policy)

Hard money policies support a specie standard, usually gold or silver, typically implemented with representative money.

Not to be confused with Hard currency.

In 1836, when President Andrew Jackson's veto of the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States took effect, he issued the Specie Circular, an executive order that all public lands had to be purchased with hard money.

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