The coin or currency which the monetary authority of a country declares to be universally acceptable therein as a medium of exchange; acceptable in the discharge of debts
Any medium of exchange which may legally be offered in exchange for goods or services or in payment of a debt, and which a creditor, seller or service provider must legally accept
(A) The circulating medium of a nation, according to a standard fixed by the government of that nation It may be in metal, in paper, or anything else that the government may choose to sanction In England, at present (1895), the standard is a gold sovereign, guaranteed of a fixed purity In some countries it is silver, and in some countries the two precious metals are made to bear a relative value, say twenty silver shillings (or their equivalents) shall equal in commercial value a gold sovereign In Germany, before 1872, a very base silver was a legal tender, and in Ireland James II made a farthing the legal tender represented by an English shilling, so that 5d was really a legal tender for a sovereign Of course, export and import trade would not be possible under such conditions
Legal tender is money, especially a particular coin or banknote, which is officially part of a country's currency at a particular time. Legally valid currency that may be offered in payment of a debt and that a creditor must accept. coins or bank notes that people can officially use as money in a particular country
A legal tender is a mean of payment (gold, coin, note, etc ) which the laws forces the sellers to accept to settle debt That is, if you're a banana wholesaler, you can refuse payment in coconuts but you have to accept dollars from a client who want to pay its debts