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单词 moneyage
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moneyagen.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French moneage, monoiage.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman moneage (1284) and Old French monoiage (1319 in this sense, 1296 in sense ‘manufacture of coins’, 1296 in form monaage in sense ‘right of sovereign to make coins’, 1318 in form monnoiaige in sense ‘mint’; French monnayage ) < monnayer money v. + -age -age suffix. Compare post-classical Latin monetagium, monedagium, late 11th cent. in British sources in specific sense of the English word; also in senses: revenue from mintage (mid 11th cent.; early 10th cent. in form monetaticum), act of minting, striking of coins (from early 12th cent. in British sources). Compare also post-classical Latin moneagium, monoiagium fee for right to use coinage (from 12th cent. in British sources), act of minting, striking of coins (1386 in a British source).
Obsolete. historical.
A tax or duty levied in relation to the minting of coins. Cf. mintage n. 4.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of coining
seigniorage1444
mintage1645
moneyage1747
1747 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. I. 482 Moneyage was a duty of twelve pence paid every third year in Normandie to the Duke for not altering the coin.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. to Henry VII I. App. ii. 414 Moneyage was also a general land-tax..levied by the two first Norman kings, and abolished by the charter of Henry I.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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