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/kˈɔɪnɪdʒ/ Listen

noun

Coinage n.

The act or process of converting metal into money. "The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates."

Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.

The cost or expense of coining money.

The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. "Unnecessary coinage... of words." "This is the very coinage of your brain."

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Etymology of 'Coinage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coinage" Quotes from Famous Books

... (October 23): Scotland to send sixteen peers and forty-five Commoners to United Houses of Parliament: Law and Church of Scotland left untouched: privileges of trade and coinage to be the ...

— With Marlborough to Malplaquet • Herbert Strang and Richard Stead

... of nation-building must be carried forward on each plane. The national name and flag and anthem and coinage all have their entirely non-logical effect based on habitual association. Meanwhile the statesmen strive to create as much meaning as possible for such symbols. If all the subjects of a State serve in one army and ...

— Human Nature In Politics - Third Edition • Graham Wallas

... inhabitant of a distant planet, present for the first time at the spectacle of some terrestrial phenomena belonging to another existence. To give body and existence to such new sensations would have required the coinage of new words—and here my feeble brain found itself wholly at fault. I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not ...

— A Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Jules Verne

... scandal, and she became the wife of Jonathan Conduitt, educated at Trinity College, a friend and pupil of Newton, who had for many years assisted in the harder work of Master of the Mint, and wrote an essay on the gold and silver coinage of the realm. He was member of Parliament for Southampton. Sir Isaac made his home with his niece and her husband till his death in 1727, when Mr. Conduitt succeeded to his office as Master of the ...

— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge

... seated some little time, the master of ceremonies, accompanied by the master of the house, walking barefooted, appeared near the reservoir, the latter holding up breast high a silver salver, in which were spread one hundred tomauns of new coinage. The master, of ceremonies then exclaimed, in a loud voice, 'The meanest of your majesty's slaves makes a humble representation to the Centre of the Universe, the King of Kings, the Shadow of God upon earth, that Mirza Ahmak, the king's chief physician, dares ...

— The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan • James Morier

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