Hard money (policy)
Hard money policies support a specie standard, usually gold or silver, typically implemented with representative money. In 1836, when President Andrew Jackson's veto of the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States took effect, he issued the Specie Circular, an executive order that all public lands had to be purchased with hard money. Bentonian currency
In the US, hard money is sometimes referred to as Bentonian, after Senator Thomas Hart Benton, who was an advocate for the hard money policies of Andrew Jackson. In Benton's view, fiat currency favored rich urban Easterners at the expense of the small farmers and tradespeople of the West. He proposed a law requiring payment for federal land in hard currency only, which was defeated in Congress but later enshrined in an executive order, the Specie Circular. See also
 Gold standard
 Silver standard
 Bimetallic standard
 Bullion coin
 Digital gold currency
 Fractional reserve banking
 Free banking
 Hard money (disambiguation)
 Libertarianism
 Bitcoin

References

Further reading
 How Gold Coins Circulated in 19th Century America David Ginsburg

Monetary policy