Lexic.us

Definition of Coinage

1. Noun. Coins collectively.

2. Noun. A newly invented word or phrase.

3. Noun. The act of inventing a word or phrase.

Definition of Coinage

1. n. The act or process of converting metal into money.

Definition of Coinage

1. Noun. The process of coining money. ¹

2. Noun. Coins taken collectively; currency. ¹

3. Noun. The creation of new words, neologizing. ¹

4. Noun. Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coinage

1. the act of making coins [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coinage

coin-operated coin-ops coin bank coin blank coin box coin collecting coin collection coin collector coin dispenser coin lesion of lungs

coin machine coin silver coin slot coin test coinable coinage (current term) coinages coinbox coinboxes coincide

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Literary usage of Coinage

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

1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1859)
"The Production of Gold and the coinage of Gold. , Art. IT,—THE PRODUCTION OF ... Bullion and dust 250000000 Total gold coinage throughout the world since. ..."

2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1859)
"coinage OF MEXICO. The following ig a table setting forth the produce of the mines of Mexico ... The coinage of the mint in the capital ia yearly reported ..."

3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1851)
"The silver coinage during the same month consisted of 128000 half dimes, of the value of ... When will oar government abolish the coinage of copper cents ! ..."

4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1854)
"Dr. R. SUELTOS MACKENZIE, the London correspondent of the Sunday Times, writes thus of the progress of the decimal coinage movement in England :— The ..."

5. A Short Constitutional History of England by Henry St. Clair Feilden (1895)
"(b) The coinage was, from the earliest times, a royal The coinage monopoly, ... The first English coinage is said to have been at Colchester. ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"That Congress had debased the coinage one sixteenth would not establish the right to further debase it; would, at most, indicate that the power to regulate ..."

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