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Synonyms for coinage

Grammar : Noun
Spell : koi-nij
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɔɪ nɪdʒ

Définition of coinage

Origin :
  • late 14c., "currency, money," from Old French coignage, from coignier "to coin" (see coin (n.)). Meaning "act or proces of coining money" is from early 15c.; sense "deliberate formation of a new word" is from 1690s, from a general sense of "something invented" (c.1600).
  • noun process of making money
  • noun metal money
Example sentences :
  • Now a mint was set up in Eden Vale, and the coinage underwent a reform.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • Then he has mines of silver and copper, and the King has given him the care of the coinage.
  • Extract from : « Two Penniless Princesses » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • It was, indeed, a realm where this coinage did not circulate.
  • Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever
  • There's many a coinage costlier than ever the mint fashioned; he may requite me thus.
  • Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever
  • The money, the coinage, perhaps, is the great reminder after all.
  • Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
  • I found that almost any coinage was useful for purchasing in the market-places.
  • Extract from : « The Philippine Islands » by John Foreman
  • From the conquest up to the year 1857 there was no Philippine coinage.
  • Extract from : « The Philippine Islands » by John Foreman
  • The coinage is to be brought more into line with commercial requirements.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization Of China » by Herbert A. Giles
  • He thinks it very hard that he cannot buy one with his own coinage, as he used to do in England.
  • Extract from : « Crotchet Castle » by Thomas Love Peacock
  • The coinage of the gold four- and eight-gulden was suspended.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 » by Various

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