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   Spe·cie

   /ˈspēSHē/

   

   noun

   • 1. money in the form of coins rather than notes: "the Bank of England in 1795 had held around £8 million in specie"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from Latin, ablative of species ‘form, kind’, in the phrase in specie‘in the actual form’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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   • P

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   • C

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   • I

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   • E

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