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Definition of Mintage

1. Noun. Coins collectively.

2. Noun. Fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin.

3. Noun. Act or process of minting coins.

Definition of Mintage

1. n. The coin, or other production, made in a mint.

Definition of Mintage

1. Noun. The process of minting coins ¹

2. Noun. The batch of coins minted at one time ¹

3. Noun. Coins collectively; specie ¹

4. Noun. The fee paid to a mint ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mintage

1. the act of minting [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mintage

mint(a) mint candy mint chocolate chip mint condition mint cream mint family mint geranium mint imperial mint imperials mint jelly

mint julep mint sauce mint tea mint teas mintable mintage (current term) mintages mintaqah minted minter

minterm minterms minters mintier mintiest mintiness minting mintlike mintman mintmark

Literary usage of Mintage

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

1. Original Letters Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1846)
"... and settling the places of mintage: the Irish money having been circulated in England, to the damage and inconvenience of the English subjects. [HARL. ..."

2. Silver in Europe by Samuel Dana Horton (1892)
"Free mintage, Gratuitous mintage, and Free Sale of Bullion. ... Gratuitous mintage is of subordinate rank ; for mintage may be free and bullion thus become ..."

3. A Policy of Free Exchange: Essays by Various Writers on the Economical and by Thomas Mackay (1894)
"The universal demand for gold consists largely in the right of mintage afforded by the governments of the gold-using countries of the world. ..."

4. The Canadian Antiquarian and Numismatic Journal (1872)
"CANADA mintage AND CASH CIRCULATION IN 1829. M'TAGGART'S CANADA. ... There are a number of shillings in circulation, but being the mintage of all nations, ..."

5. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1860)
"The President mintage. The receipts and expenditures for the first half of the year, and an estimate of those for the residue, will be laid before you by ..."

6. Three Years in Canada: An Account of the Actual State of the Country in 1826 by John Mactaggart (1829)
"... mintage AND CASH CIRCULATION. THE money in circulation is chiefly what is called dollar-bills, being provincial bank-notes, and Yankee half-dollars, ..."

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