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• SILVER CERTIFICATE
  
  a form of U. S. paper currency. The certificate is a receipt for a stated amount of silver in the U. S. Treasury, but the redemption privilege was revoked by Congress in 1968. Silver certificates were first issued in 1873.
  
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