Word Finder - coin

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(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.

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A token used in a special establishment like a casino.

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• chip

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That which serves for payment or recompense.

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Money in general, not limited to coins.

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She spent some serious coin on that car!

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• money

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One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

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A corner or external angle.

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• quoin
• wedge

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A small circular slice of food.

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A cryptocurrency.

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What's the best coin to buy right now?

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To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.

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to coin a medal

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• manufacture
• mint

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(by extension) To make or fabricate.

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Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.

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• invent
• originate

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To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

She pulled out her coin purse.

The coin was a new one.

I'll save my coin and find us a home there.

He was given the right to dispense justice, to coin money and to appoint the bishops in Bavaria.

On the flip side of the coin, she was finding life unbearable without him.

The world's our atlas if we have the guts to flip a coin and take a chance.

It was a silver coin, warmed by his skin, with a circle of cuneiform symbols surrounding a star with two arrows.

It is described as a cornelian encased in a silver coin.

She fingered the coin around her neck as she lay before the fire.

British coin is legal tender (since 1905).

A special silver coin of rupee value has been introduced.

Before you do anything to your old pennies decide whether or not you think they may be a valuable addition to a coin collection.

The assignats had now become totally valueless - the abolition of the "maximum" the previous year (1795) had produced no effect, and, though, by various payments into the treasury, the total number had been reduced to about 24,000,000,000 francs, their face-value was about 3 o to I of coin.

The coin inscriptions usually give only the name of the town, e.g.

He was the first in Congress to oppose the claim, which gained momentary and widespread favour in 1867, that the public debt, pledged in coin, should be paid in greenbacks.

In addition, there is an outdoor pool, coin laundry and WiFi is available in all guest rooms for $2.99 per 24-hour period.

A hatch case has a notch cut into the back of the case that you can open with a thin screwdriver or even a coin.

The Coin Charm Watch features a sterling silver faceplate, and bracelet.

It's said that humor is the other side of anger's coin.

The war between the two pretenders was long and doubtful; on a coin Vonones mentions a victory over Artabanus.

The coin purses are also a big hit - an easy way to jazz up an ordinary handbag and also a great gift.

One coin ensures you will return to Rome.

The album was released by MGM, which also helped coin the term "soundtrack" when they billed the release as "recorded directly from the soundtrack."

Fractional silver coin is not legal tender above 20 pesos, and bronze and nickel coins not above 1 peso, but the government maintains conversion offices where such coins can be converted into silver pesos without loss.

The simple offering of food or shedding of blood at the grave develops into an elaborate system of sacrifice; even where ancestor-worship is not found, the desire to provide the dead with comforts in the future life may lead to the sacrifice of wives, slaves, animals, &c., to the breaking or burning of objects at the grave or to the provision of the ferryman's toll, a coin put in the mouth of the corpse to pay the travelling expenses of the soul.

The money in circulation consists of a limited number of notes issued by the federal government, and the notes of the chartered banks, together with gold, silver and copper coin.

Previous to 1906 this coin was minted in England, but in that year a branch of the royal mint was established at Ottawa.

Though the whole financial system rests on the maintenance of the gold standard, gold coin plays a much smaller part in daily business than in England, France or Germany.

This instrument was devised for the purpose of detecting counterfeit coin, especially guineas and half-guineas.

In Offa's time a new gold coin, the mancus, resembling in standard the Roman solidus (about 70 grains), was introduced from Mahommedan countries.

The taxes paid to the Lhasa government are mostly in kind, sheep, ponies, meal, butter, wool, native cloth, &c., and the coin paid is said to be about 130,000 ounces of silver a year.

The Gurkhas, after becoming masters of Nepal, were anxious to renew the profitable traffic in coin, and in this view sent a deputation to Lhasa with a quantity of coin to be put in circulation.

But the Gurkhas were mistrusted and their coin refused.

From the time of Darius the Persian monarchs issued a gold coinage, and reserved to themselves the right of doing so; but they allowed their satraps and vassal states to coin silver and copper money at discretion.

They kept the keys of the treasury and had charge of its contents, including not only coin and bullion but also the military standards and a large number of public documents, which in later times comprised all the laws as well as the decrees of the senate.

Refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the German king Conrad I., he was unsuccessfully attacked by the latter, and in 920 was recognized as duke by Conrad's successor, Henry I., the Fowler, who admitted his supremacy and the right to appoint the bishops, to coin money and to issue laws.

It contains the chronological collection of Danish monarchs, including a coin and medal cabinet, a fine collection of Venetian glass, the famous silver drinking-horn of Oldenburg (1474), the regalia and other objects of interest as illustrating the history of Denmark.

Lee, who was the last archbishop of York to and pressed closely in rear by Grant's main body, General Lee coin money, died on the 13th of September 1544.

When Philip retaliated by a decree forbidding the exportation of any coin from France, Boniface gave way to save the papal dues, and the bulls issued by him in 1297 were a decided victory for the French king.

The unit is the mark (I shilling)the tenth part of the imperial gold coin (Krone=crown), of which last 139& are struck from a pound of pure gold.

No one can be compelled to accept more than 20 marks in silver or more than i mark in nickel and copper coin; but, on the other hand, the Imperial Bank accepts imperial silver coin in payment to any amount.

Earlier tyrants were well pleased to be spoken of as kings; but no earlier rulers of Sicily put either their heads or their names on the coin.

The expedition was undertaken on his suggestion and its success was largely due to his energy and enthusiasm; in September 1749 £ 183,650 (English) in coin was brought to Boston to cover the outlay of Massachusetts, and largely through Shirley's influence this was used for the redemption of outstanding paper money, thus re-establishing the finances of the province, a subject to which Shirley had given much attention.

In the trading between whites and Indians, wampum so completely took the place of ordinary coin that its value was fixed by legal enactment, three to a penny and five shillings a fathom.

In 1479 he called a meeting of two burgesses from each "good city" of his realm to consider means for preventing the influx of foreign coin.

Though in public prayers and on the coins the name of the caliph remained as that of the supreme authority, he had in reality no authority out of the palace, so that the saying became proverbial, "he contents himself with sermon and coin."

He is also represented leaning on a staff while a huge serpent rears itself up behind him, or (on a coin from Gythium),,a serpent seems to come to him from a well.

The currency is the Mexican and British dollar, the company issuing its own copper coin - viz.

The current coin consists largely of Mexican and Central and South American dollars; but little coin is in circulation.

The value of the silver peso in fractional silver money is about nineteen pence; in a single coin about twenty pence.