Lexic.us

Definition of Coin bank

1. Noun. A container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home. "The coin bank was empty"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coin Bank

Literary usage of Coin bank

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Banking with a Comprehensive Account of the Origin, Rise, and by William John Lawson (1850)
"... of 300,00<M.—His trial and ingenious defence—Bank issue Spanish dollars—Bullion Committee 1810—Penalty for selling Gold coin—Bank issue 3s. and 1*. ..."

2. Effects of the War on Money, Credit and Banking in France and the United States by Benjamin MacAlester Anderson (1919)
"CHAPTER VI The Effects of the War on the Medium of Exchange in France: Coin, Bank Notes and Checks At the outbreak of the war, gold money in France quickly ..."

3. Preliminary Economic Studies of the War by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of Economics and History (1919)
"CHAPTER VI The Effects of the War on the Medium of Exchange in France: Coin, Bank Notes and Checks At the outbreak of the war, gold money in France quickly ..."

4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"The term "moneys" or "money" shall be held to mean and include gold, silver, and other coin, bank bills, and other bills or notes authorized to be ..."

5. The Progress of the Nation by George Richardson Porter (1838)
"Bad state of the Coinage at the beginning of the Century—Disappearance of Coin—Bank Tokens—Moneys coined 1801 to 1836—Diminished weight of Silver ..."

6. A Compendium of the Law and Practice of Injunctions: And of Interlocutory by Baron Robert Henley Eden Henley, Thomas Whitney Waterman (1852)
"... or disposing of, or intermeddling with, any money in coin, bank bills, drafts or checks belonging to you, the said CD whether iu your possession, ..."

7. Corn, Cotton and Currency by Amasa Walker (1857)
"But these coin bank notes will not only form a mixed currency, ... Differing widely in character from either of these, the coin bank notes will disturb the ..."

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