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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPECIE, n. spe'shy. Coin; copper, silver or gold coined and used as a circulating medium of commerce. [See Special.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: coins collectively [syn: coinage, mintage, specie, metal money]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: from in specie, from Latin, in kind Date: 1617 money in coin II. noun Etymology: back-formation from species (taken as a plural) Date: 1647 nonstandard species

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. coin money as opposed to paper money. Etymology: L, ablat. of SPECIES in phrase in specie

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Specie Spe"ci*e, abl. of L. species sort, kind. Used in the phrase in specie, that is, in sort, in kind, in (its own) form. ``[The king] expects a return in specie from them'' [i. e., kindness for kindness]. --Dryden. In specie (Law), in precise or definite form; specifically; according to the exact terms; of the very thing.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Specie Spe"cie, n. [Formed as a singular from species, in sense 5.] Coin; hard money.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Coin, cash, metallic money, hard money, stamped money.

Moby Thesaurus

and pence, cash, circulating medium, coin, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, crown, currency, dollars, double eagle, doubloon, ducat, eagle, emergency money, filthy lucre, five-dollar gold piece, fractional currency, gold, gold piece, guinea, half crown, half eagle, hard cash, hard currency, hard money, legal tender, lucre, mammon, managed currency, medium of exchange, mintage, moidore, money, napoleon, necessity money, pelf, piece, piece of money, piece of silver, postage currency, postal currency, pound sovereign, pounds, roll of coins, rouleau, scrip, shillings, silver, soft currency, sovereign, sterling, ten-dollar gold piece, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, twenty-dollar gold piece