There are three kinds of paper money. One of them is representative paper money, second is convertible paper money and the third one is inconvertible paper money. The representative paper money is the natural human desire that the media of exchange of a country should possess the fundamental quality of general acceptability, it should have great value in small bulk and it should be of the uniform quality and should also be convenient and economical in the method of effecting payments. The representative paper money has all these qualities of good money material. Representative money us hat money which is fully backed by the metallic money. For instance the American gold and silver certificates had 100 % metallic reserves behind them in the treasury of the United States of America until 1933. the earliest goldsmiths certificates which served in a very limited fashion as media of exchange were representative paper money.
In the monetary evaluating convertible paper money has played a very important role. "Convertible paper money" is that money which carries a promise by the issuer that the paper can be converted into the standard money metal at some future date. The holder of paper money has the confidence that it can be redeemed for full bodied money on demand.
In the monetary evaluating convertible paper money has played a very important role. "Convertible paper money" is that money which carries a promise by the issuer that the paper can be converted into the standard money metal at some future date. The holder of paper money has the confidence that it can be redeemed for full bodied money on demand.