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card money Hist. 
a kind of paper currency issued in New France by the Intendant Bigot to meet the pay of the garrison while awaiting funds from France and made from playing cards which were cut in quarters, each quarter being marked as having a certain value and each being signed by the Governor and the Intendant.
- 1840 . . . a paper currency termed card money . . . enabled Bigot to conceal for a long time his waste and peculations.
- 1963 The expedient was resorted to on several subsequent occasions and at one time "card money" constituted the chief currency of Canada.
- 1840 . . . a paper currency termed card money . . . enabled Bigot to conceal for a long time his waste and peculations.