当とう銀ぎん

noun

on-the-spot payment; immediate payment

Archaic term for paying immediately at the time of transaction, similar to 即金 (そっきん). Not used in modern Japanese.

See also: 即金

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの商しょう人にんは、当とう銀ぎんで取とり引ひきすることが多おおかった。

  Merchants in the Edo period often conducted transactions with on-the-spot payment.