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mintage

9.9

A fee the government pays to make coins

noun
/ˈmɪn.tɪdʒ/

Specialized

: señoreaje

The government agreed to pay the mintage for each batch of coins produced.

Examples

I paid the mintage fee for the special edition coins.
The mintage for the new coin was set at $1 million.
Debate arose over how the mintage was calculated in the contract with the Royal Mint.
Historically, the mintage was an important revenue source for sovereigns issuing new coins.
The government agreed to pay the mintage for each batch of coins produced.
I paid the mintage fee for the special edition coins.
Debate arose over how the mintage was calculated in the contract with the Royal Mint.

Synonyms

seigniorage

vsmintage

Specialized

1 9.9

Profit a government gets when the value of money is higher than its cost to make

is a specific fee paid to a producer for creating one currency piece

How High

high-interest

12 4.2

substantial

394 5.0

mintage

Specialized

9.9

nominal

Specialized

29 6.8

token payment

1 4.0

Surface Forms

mintage singular

mintages plural

Morphology

mintage = mint (opaque) = mint + age

Although the form comes from 'mint' + '-age', the sense 'fee paid to a mint' is a specialized historical meaning that is not directly predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Mintage comes from mint ('place that makes coins') and -age ('the act or result'), and the word was used for the mint's work and the fee for that work. So mintage can also mean the payment a government makes to have coins produced.