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• They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.
• 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.