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coinage

coinage

2 4.7
Coins produced by a government for use as money
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ/
translation icon : moneda
  • 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.

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Examples

  • This state of affairs often left the treasury empty and forced the shoguns to debase the coinage to pay debts, thus causing inflation.

  • Equally to blame was the fact that the nation's coinage was in disarray.

  • 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.

  • In ancient Rome, the quality of the coinage reflected the wealth and power of the empire.

  • Many countries have upgraded their coinage to include new security features to prevent counterfeiting.

Synonyms

specie
vscoinage
  • Specialized
1 9.9

Money in coins rather than paper notes

is about coins produced by an authority rather than only the money form
mintage
vscoinage
  • Specialized
1 9.1

All the coins made in one place or time

is the general collective term for coins issued by an authority
metal money
vscoinage
1.8

Coins used to pay instead of paper notes

focuses on coins issued by an authority rather than on material composition

How Official

legal tender
  • Formal
4 4.0
coinage
2 4.7
token
  • Archaic
36 3.6

Surface Forms

coinage singular
coinages plural

Morphology

coinage = coin (semi-transparent) = coin + age

The word is built from 'coin' + '-age', but the collective sense 'coins as a body' is somewhat conventional rather than fully predictable.

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.