scrip

noun8

1. •
   A voucher or token coin used in place of legal tender. Issued by a local government or a private organization.
2. •
   Such a thing issued by a company as payment of wages.

   • A grievance that was both economic and psychological was the practice, common in some mills, especially prior to 1890, of paying in scrip that had to be redeemed for goods at a company store. — 2012
3. •
   (informal) A medical prescription.
4. •
   A share certificate.
5. •
   A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.

   • Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around. — 1919
6. •
   A document signifying a power to obtain a specified acreage of public land.

   • Each unit of scrip you buy entitles you to one acre of the choicest land in North America. — 2014
7. •
   A scrap of paper.
8. •
   (no longer used) Small change.

   • In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip" was in the sixties the name for small change. — 1899