The city produced its own coinage from 1325 to 1864.
...the world's finest collection of medieval European coinage.
2. uncountable noun
Coinage is the system of money used in a country.
It took four years for Britain just to decimalise its own coinage.
coinage in British English
(ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ)
noun
1.
coins collectively
2.
the act of striking coins
3.
the currency of a country
4.
the act of inventing something, esp a word or phrase
5.
a newly invented word, phrase, usage, etc
coinage in American English
(ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ)
noun
1.
the act or process of coining
2.
metal money; coins
3.
a system of money or metal currency
4.
an invented word or expression
laser is a recent coinage
Word origin
ME < OFr coignaige
Examples of 'coinage' in a sentence
coinage
Nor is it a recent coinage.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
That's a recent coinage, something dreamt up in the past few months to explain away something many of us had feared for some time.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
To combat deflation further, the platform demanded the unlimited coinage of silver and an increase in the money supply "to no less than $50 per capita.
Garraty, John Arthur The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)
In other languages
coinage
British English: coinage NOUN
Coinage is the coins which are used in a country.
The city produced its own coinage from 1325 to 1864.