1Coins collectively.

1. 1.1 The action or process of producing coins from metal.
   the controller of the coinage of tin

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   • Metals like silver, nickel and gold are a perfect medium for coinage because of their durability and the value accorded by their relative rarity.
   • Acquiring gold and silver was vital for coinage and, in the late Empire, for official payments in plate and ingots.
   • The point is that Fekete's plan calls for opening up the U.S. Mint for coinage of both gold and silver coins as the Founders intended.
   • In 1896, the Democratic party coopted an aspect of the Populists' financial program, the free and unlimited coinage of silver, on behalf of the candidacy of William Jennings Bryan.
   • Nevertheless, by the eighth century, royal control of coinage is clear.
   • Strong points or burghs were constructed; control of coinage established; a navy created, and the kingdom divided up into shires and hundreds.
   • Its platform called for the free coinage of silver and plenty of paper money.
   • Though Norman dukes controlled the coinage in their domain, no new coins had been minted since the time of William's grandfather.
   • In the 1890s the Populist movement demanded stronger government intervention into the economy, including the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of sixteen to one.
   • It can be effected by opening the U.S. Mint to the free and unlimited coinage of gold, as mandated by the U.S. Constitution.
   • The gold standard divided the party, as 24 Western delegates staged a walk out when the GOP refused to accept the unlimited coinage of gold and silver.
2. 1.2count noun A system or type of coins in use.
   decimal coinage

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   • Britain abandoned silver coinage in 1947, after more than two millennia.
   • He also is the artist for George Washington's Inaugural Centennial Medal, and was asked by Theodore Roosevelt to redesign the U.S. gold coinage.
   • Before 1971, the primary coinage had 20 pence equal to one shilling.
   • It took until Edgar's standardizing reform of 973 to convert these semi-independent regional coinages into something approaching a national currency.
   • Offsetting the lift in the proposed new funding agreement will be substantial savings accruing from the modernisation of the silver coinage, as well as some smaller efficiency gains.
   • In 1867 Paris convened an international monetary conference that voted unanimously in favor of a universal coinage building on the LMU-franc system.
   • In c.973 Eadgar designed a new coinage of pennies, which was regularly renewed and remained the basis of the English currency until long after the Conquest.
   • This was a complicated procedure because there were so many separate political entities, from city-states to empires, each having its own coinage with different weights and different contents of precious metal.
   • There was usually a fixed rate of exchange between the two coinages, though this was upset when opium poured in and silver flowed out, causing a scarcity of the latter.
   • After the civil war in the 1920s a committee was established under the chairmanship of WB Yeats to mint a coinage fit for a country newly independent for the UK.
   • He became a senator of the Irish Free State in 1922, chairing the committee on the new Irish coinage, and later causing a controversy with his defence of divorce in June 1925.
   • Louis's coinage may not have influenced the architects of the Euro whose notes and coins began to circulate in January 2002, but this was still a remarkable achievement by this unappreciated Carolingian emperor.
   • Trade Viticulture was also important to the economy of many cities, as is shown by the number of states whose coinage bears wine-related designs.
   • He came to the throne rich and bequeathed debts, a corrupt coinage, and roaring inflation; much of the newly acquired land was sold to the gentry and aristocracy by his death.
   • Its empire instead consisted in commerce, particularly through the control that Venetian coinage exerted over international trade.
   • Athelstan, the forceful grandson of Alfred, was the first to impose a unified coinage, which depicted him as the first English king to wear a crown.
   • A new coinage, based on the denarius, was introduced in 211.
   • In the 750s, Pepin assumed the kingship of the Franks and introduced a completely new silver coinage, using the Latin term ‘denarius’.
   • It is no wonder that the Carolingian clerics, who were the spin doctors of their day, drew attention to the parallels, which are also manifest in Louis's coinage.

2The invention of a new word or phrase.

1. 2.1count noun A newly invented word or phrase.
   the recent coinage ‘Eurointellectuals’

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   • Probably more interesting is Shakespeare's inventiveness with noun-verb coinages.
   • The alleged distinction between tsaritsa and tsarina does not exist: the latter term is not a Russian word at all, but a west European coinage.
   • Over-governed is a recent coinage, normally referring in Britain to regional assemblies or Europe.
   • Though the term is a fairly recent coinage, what it indicates is something familiar to all.
   • The Telegraph reports on the publication of a new dictionary of Italian neologisms (2006 parole nuove by Valeria Della Valle and Giovanni Adamo), which includes dozens of coinages based on the names of political leaders.
   • H. L. Mencken, in his explorations into American linguistic usages once pointed out that ‘to get religion’ was an American coinage.
   • Although they could tell me factual things about their lives, their language was peppered with new, idiosyncratic word coinages, peculiar misusages of phrases and illogical connection between ideas.
   • Always the playful neologist (pertussion is his coinage from the technical term for whooping cough, pertussis), Wallace has lately become a professor of literature.
   • This is not only an imaginative coinage, it is also more accurate than the English word, since computers are rarely asked to compute.
   • Robot is a word that is both a coinage by an individual person and a borrowing.
   • This means that the essence of European civilization is what Brague calls, in another of his coinages, ‘secondarity.’
   • The word universal appears to be an Aristotelian coinage.
   • The term ‘bling’ - the new slang coinage for the flash of all those carats - has even (for better or for worse) passed into the language.
   • Robin Red-breast was just another of these coinages, used since about 1450 to name a commonplace bird.
   • The website, where you can register newly coined words, accepted the coinage by a journalist based at Muvattupuzha.
   • Even the once telling catchphrase that he had ‘something of the night’ about him is unstable - already new coinages are appearing, ‘something of the nice’ is just the most recent.
   • The growth of electronics and communication mediated by computers has given rise to great numbers of coinages, many of them fleeting, all seeking to describe the adaptation of such techniques to some aspect of daily life.
   • New coinages appear literally on a weekly basis, nobody appears to have real input on the appropriateness of new words or on their usefulness, especially when it comes to jargon.
   • Indeed, the very term ‘human resources’ (like ‘human capital’) was a coinage of the utilitarian consensus.