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recoin, v.|riːˈkɔɪn|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To coin over again, to pass again through the mint.
1685in 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. VIII. 131 The remedy..is to recoyne the forreign money to our standard. a1727Newton Chronol. Amended (1728) 40 Darius the Mede recoins the Lydian money. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 229/1 It may be found convenient..to recoin such denominations altogether. 1879H. Phillips Notes Coins 6 These pieces, upon their arrival at Rome, by reason of their..fineness of quality, were at once recoined.
fig.1836E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 34, I wish with you that people would..recoin some of the everyday compliments into a simpler form.
Hence reˈcoining vbl. n.; also reˈcoiner, one who recoins (Ogilvie 1882).
1691Locke Lower. Interest Wks. 1727 II. 90 It will enforce the recoining of all our Money, both old and new. 1740W. Douglass Disc. Curr. Brit. Plant. Amer. 32 In France their recoinings..did rise the Price of Goods. 1882Rep. to Ho. Repr. Prec. Met. U.S. 547 An annual consumption of gold in England..for use in the arts, for abrasion and for recoining. |