"assignat" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 196:",
          "text": "If the landed man wishes to mortgage, he falls the value of his land, and raises the value of assignats.",
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          "ref": "1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 387:",
          "text": "[O]n her request for money, I took out a parcel of assignats I had in my pocket.",
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          "ref": "1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 25:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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