coinage
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1. coinage - Noun
2. coinage - Verb
Meaning
The act or process of converting metal into money.
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.
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The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!
I am of the opinion that the main and final cause why the prince pretends to the power of altering the coinage is the profit or gain which he can get from it.
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
The easiest way to buy silver was to take a paper dollar to the bank and ask for change. So much coinage was disappearing from circulation that the government was forced to remove silver from U.S. coinage beginning in 1965.