coinage

Definition

The process of coining money.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English coynage, from Old French coignage, from coignier. By surface analysis, coin + -age.

Example Sentences

• "He […] threw himself on a sopha opposite the copy of a bust of the Apollo Belvidere. After one or two trivial remarks, to which I sullenly replied, he suddenly cried, looking at the bust, “I am called like that victor! Not a bad idea; the head will serve for my new coinage, and be an omen to all dutiful subjects of my future success.”"
• "The Minoan age had not only an elaborate system of weights, but the first beginnings of a coinage."
• "My father was one of those persons who could add a column of figures - even of the ridiculous coinage then in use locally - with a flick of the eye, so that it was natural for him to have in mind that I should become an accountant."