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单词 mintage
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mintagen.

Brit. /ˈmɪntɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈmɪn(t)ɪdʒ/
Forms: 1500s myntage, 1600s– mintage.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mint v.2, mint n.1, -age suffix.
Etymology: < mint v.2 or mint n.1 + -age suffix. Compare moneyage n. and French and Latin forms cited s.v., and also earlier coinage n.
Now chiefly Numismatics.
1.
a. The action or process of coining or minting money; (occasionally) the right to do this. Cf. coinage n. 1.
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society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun]
coinagec1380
stroke1449
coining1483
forging1523
minting1548
mintagec1570
c1570 MS Rawlinson D. 23 lf. 13 A treatyse concerninge the myntage of the monyes.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xxxviii. 365/1 Hee did [enrich] certaine Cities with the Mintage of his money, whereof in London were eight houses,..at Lewis two [etc.].
1779 Gentleman's Mag. 49 410 A curious account by the President of the Roman mintage under Honorius and Arcadius.
1820 D. Turner Tour Normandy II. 261 From time immemorial, the chapter has enjoyed the right of mintage.
1853 H. N. Humphreys Coin Collector's Man. I. xxiv. 344 Coins of Roman mintage.
1891 Overland Monthly Jan. 26/1 Nestling..amongst the children's silver rested the stranger's well-worn pocket-piece, a ‘slug’ of California's pioneer mintage.
1913 Econ. Jrnl. 23 530 Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, about 240 b.c., ordered the mintage of metallic coins.
1991 A. Burnett Interpreting Past (BNC) 26 Most Merovingian coins of the period have inscriptions which refer only to the moneyer and the place of mintage.
b. In extended use: the fabrication or production of something compared to coinage; esp. the deliberate formation of a new word, phrase, etc.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > contriving or devising
crafta1398
artifice1526
contriving1583
hammering1589
contrivement1599
contrival1602
mintage1632
contrivance1644
fabrefaction1652
artificery1688
the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [noun] > new word or phrase
mint-phrase1631
neologism1772
neoterism1794
neology1801
mintage1834
coinage1873
1632 T. Randolph Jealous Lovers iv. viii. 69 All these plots are coyn'd Out of the devils mintage!
1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ Diat. vi. 315 They had the monopoly and mintage of godliness.
1662 A. Mervyn Speech to Duke of Ormond 2 It is now in its Mintage, and our care must be, that the Miter be not stampt instead of the Crown.
1747 T. Warton Pleasures of Melancholy 9 That Reason's mintage fair Unmoulds, and stamps the monster on the man.
1834 T. De Quincey S. T. Coleridge in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 689/1 A new word of German mintage.
1883 H. S. Maine Diss. Early Law & Custom 15 Few literary theories of modern mintage have more to recommend them.
1915 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 25 555 My recollection is that this term is of Dr. Kallen's own mintage.
2. A stamp or impression placed on something; = impress n.1 2a. Chiefly in figurative context. Obsolete.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [noun]
tokenc1000
distinctionc1374
differencea1398
signeta1425
knowledge?c1475
smell?a1505
markc1522
badge1529
note1583
impress1590
monument1590
type1595
stamp1600
pressure1604
mintage1612
criterion1613
impressa1628
differencer1633
lineament1638
mole1644
discrimination1646
tessera1647
diagnostic1651
monumental1657
discretive1660
signate1662
footmark1666
trait1752
memorandum1766
fingerprint1792
insignia1796
identifier1807
designative1824
cachet1840
differentiator1854
tanga1867
trademark1869
signature1873
totem1875
differential1883
earmarkings1888
paw print1894
discriminator1943
ident1952
1612 J. Donne Second Anniuersarie 21 in First Anniuersarie Shee whose rich beauty lent Mintage to others beauties, for they went But for so much, as they were like to her.
1637 J. Milton Comus 18 And the inglorious likenesse of a beast Fixes instead, unmoulding reasons mintage Character'd in the face.
a1664 K. Philips Friendship in Poems (1667) 78 Those kind Impressions which Fate can't controul, Are Heaven's mintage on a worthy Soul.
1822 Ld. Byron Werner iii. i Methinks it wears upon its face my guilt For motto, not the mintage of the state.
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xxiii. 34 Brushing your elbow unguessed-at..They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man.
3.
a. The product of a (particular) mint; a coin, or the coinage, minted by a specified ruler, institution, etc., or in a specified place or country. Later also: the quantity minted of a particular coin.
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society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > quantity of coin struck
mint1579
journeya1600
journey-weight1883
strike1891
mintage1971
1638 T. Carew To Henry Lord Cary in H. Cary Romvlvs & Tarqvin (ed. 2) sig. A5 Or what the Crusca yet For currant Tuscan mintage will admit.
1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 42 The Romans..purposely sowed and buried their mintage.
1887 Athenæum 5 Nov. 598/1 A timely withdrawal of the worn coins may lead to the substitution of a better class of mintages.
1914 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. Oct. 981 In the absence of any silver mintage of Hermæus or Kadphises it is not..surprising that silver coins should have found their way to Taxila from neighbouring Pahlava.
1971 Daily Tel. 7 Aug. 7/7 As for coins with small mintages, if there are more potential buyers than coins issued, the price will automatically rise.
1992 Numismatist Mar. 331/1 The coin..is about three times as rare as the regular 1879 proof, which would indicate an estimated mintage of about 800.
b. In extended use.
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1659 R. Brathwait Panthalia 34 New-fashion'd habits, melodious aires, amorous parlies, with a Mintage of quaint devised complements.
1839 J. Sterling Poems 167 Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage, All from dust receive their birth.
1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. iv. 147 Christianity..stamped them..and made them current amid the coins of a debased mintage.
1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point vi. 98 The ground beneath the palm trees of Joohoo was littered with a mintage of shining silver, splashed with puddles of mercury.
1952 R. Campbell tr. Poems of Baudelaire 37 A liquid heaven that showers a mintage of stars across my heart.
4. The charge for, or cost of, coining; the duty paid for minting or coining. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of coining
seigniorage1444
mintage1645
moneyage1747
1645 in W. W. Hening Statutes at Large: Coll. Laws Virginia (1823) I. 308 To allow for the mintage 12d. per pound soe there will remaine £9500 sterl. The mintage allowed and deducted.
1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 18 240 Mintage, altarage, and small dues, are almost unknown.
1869 J. G. Hubbard in Gold Coinage Controversy 31 If the mintage be sensibly increased beyond the cost of coinage, you provoke private coinage.
1875 W. S. Jevons Money xiv. 168 Some small savings would accrue from the less amount of mintage required.
1895 Econ. Jrnl. 5 53 On all silver there are certain fixed charges—seignorage, mintage, &c.—to be made before it is coined.

Compounds

General attributive.
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a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) 287 Con...implieth the mintage place.
1868 E. Seyd Bullion 394 The actual Mintage Par of Exchange between London and Paris is £1 = fcs. 25·2215.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 6 Apr. 7/2 The early efforts of the Edwards to set the coin of the Realm on a proper mintage system.
1984 Coin Monthly Jan. 35/2 The mintage figure recorded for Orleans..is 5,039,000 pieces.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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