Coined
[kɔind]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Coin
Typist: Lottie
Examples
- In the time of Servius Tullius, who first coined money at Rome, the Roman as or pondo contained a Roman pound of good copper. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When this great company, therefore, bought gold bullion in order to have it coined, they were obliged to pay for it two per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In England, gold was not considered as a legal tender for a long time after it was coined into money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There was little or no credit or coined money. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Coined gold and silver would be more valuable than uncoined. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They had no coined money, nor any established instrument of commerce of any kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He called it the Addressograph--a coined word meaning to write addresses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It refers to the man higher up, although the phrase had not been coined in those days of lower public morality. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- How should there be any, seeing that the old hard jailer of Harmony Jail had coined every waif and stray into money, long before? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Coined money and monetary reckoning developed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Even the Peruvians, the more civilized nation of the two, though they made use of gold and silver as ornaments, had no coined money of any kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But in France this mark of standard gold is coined into thirty louis d'ors of twenty-four livres each, or into seven hundred and twenty livres. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Lottie