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What is a ‘legal tender’? What is ‘fiat money’?

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1. Legal tender:

(a) Legally, money is anything proclaimed by law as a medium of exchange.

(b) Paper notes and coins (together called currency) is money as a matter of law.

(c) Nobody can refuse its acceptance as medium of exchange.

2. FIAT Money: It is defined as a money which is under the ‘FIAT’ (order/authority) of the government to act as a money.

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