specie

noun

1. (uncountable)Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie.
2. (uncountable)Money in the form of coins made from precious metal that has an intrinsic value; coinage.

   “I received one month's pay in specie while on the march to Virginia, in the year 1781, and except that, I never received any pay worth the name while I belonged to the army.”

   “‘It was not money or specie he thought himself hunting!’”

   ““Dick” Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, “Got to ‘scram,’ kid — write if you get work.””

3. (form-of, hypercorrect, singular)singular of species