Coinage
['kɒɪnɪdʒ] or ['kɔɪnɪdʒ]
Definition
(v. t.) The act or process of converting metal into money.
(v. t.) Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
(v. t.) The cost or expense of coining money.
(v. t.) The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Coin.[2]. Invention, fabrication, creation.
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Examples
- The coinage of the United States mints since the organization of the government has amounted to nearly 6,000,000,000 pieces, valued at over $4,000,000,000. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In England, as the coinage costs nothing, the current coin can never be much more valuable than the quantity of bullion which it actually contains. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Standard gold, or the alloy used for the gold coinage of Britain, consists of twenty-two parts of gold and two of copper (being thus twenty-two carats fine). Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Not a bad idea; the head will serve for my new coinage, and be an omen to all dutiful subjects of my future success. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Those metals seem originally to have been made use of for this purpose in rude bars, without any stamp or coinage. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- China had no general coinage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The promise to pay so much silver or gold on leather (= parchment) with the seal of some established firm is probably as old or older than coinage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The whole coinage of valuation was spurious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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