Currency money or book money, which are fiat money. Currency money Currency money is money in full circulation that takes its value from the precious metal it contains, that is, its market value is (almost) the value of the metal it contains (apart from the Seigniorage or the minters' profit), though this is always overcompensated for in coins and banknotes from a country undergoing debasement. Currency money is usually made of silver or gold, but in very rare cases plated metal and even copper may be used. Currency money is commodity money, as opposed to coins whose metal value is less than
Sambo (racial term) Sambo (racial term) Sambo is a term for a person with African heritage and, in some countries, also mixed with Native American heritage (see "zambo"). Formerly, it had the technical meaning of a person having a mixture of black and white ancestry, more black than white—contrast with mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, etc. in modern US English and British English. The word "sambo" came into the English language from the Latin American Spanish word "zambo", the Spanish word in Latin America for a person of mixed African and Native American descent. This in turn may have come from one of three African