coinage

coinage is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot.

[2] Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.

[3] The cost or expense of coining money.

[4] The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. "Unnecessary coinage . . . of words." Dryden. This is the very coinage of your brain. Shak.

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