Assignat

If the landed man wishes to mortgage, he falls the value of his land, and raises the value of assignats.

[O]n her request for money, I took out a parcel of assignats I had in my pocket.

He was in favour of a national bank; he was strongly opposed to the reckless issue of assignats and spoke against it in the Assembly.

The continuing depreciation of the assignat was worsening problems: in November and December, the currency's cash return dipped below 1 per cent of its face value, bringing a comic aspect to many exchanges and inducing street beggars to decline alms in paper form.