coinage
- noun
- /ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ/
- And in Britain there is no coinage at all.
- Byzantine coinage
Equally to blame was the fact that the nation's coinage was in disarray.
- Equally to blame was the fact that the nation's coinage was in disarray.
- We see we save gold and silver coinage and we don't keep it in this country.
- And in Britain there is no coinage at all.
- In fact, this person is a worse wrongdoer than those who counterfeit the coinage.
- And of course, we've got some got some coinage here, which has to be organized by denomination.
Examples
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This state of affairs often left the treasury empty and forced the shoguns to debase the coinage to pay debts, thus causing inflation.
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Equally to blame was the fact that the nation's coinage was in disarray.
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Of course, we had gold and silver coinage in circulation then.
Blog text (25) -
Unlimited coinage of silver was an issue certain to split the Democratic Party.
Fiction book (1993) -
After the fall of Rome, their coinage went from gold to silver to copper to base metals.
Blog text (25) -
Ancient Roman coinage is rich with astronomical imagery that tells us much about how Romans viewed the heavens.
Academic text (1995) -
If you are interested in cost-effective ways to obtain copper coinage, consider the pre-1983 pennies.
Blog text (2) -
The government introduced new coinage to replace the old, worn-out coins in circulation.
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In ancient Rome, the quality of the coinage reflected the wealth and power of the empire.
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Many countries have upgraded their coinage to include new security features to prevent counterfeiting.
Synonyms
Money in coins rather than paper notes
All the coins made in one place or time
Coins used to pay instead of paper notes
How Official
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Coinage originally meant the making and the pieces of coin, because coin meant to 'stamp' metal into money. So coinage now means the coins a government produces or the system used to make them.