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Mintage   Listen
noun
Mintage  n.  
1.
The coin, or other production, made in a mint. "Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage."
2.
The duty paid to the mint for coining. At one time people could bring precious metals, as gold or silver, to a mint and receive in return coins of the same value, minus the commision charged by the mint, which was the mintage.
3.
The act or process of minting (1); as, a coin of recent mintage.
4.
The quantity of coins of a specific type made by the mint; as, coins of low mintage tend to be more valuable as collectors' items.






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"Mintage" Quotes from Famous Books



... the author it was the El Dorado of his dreams. "When the Casco cast anchor," he avers, "my soul went down with these moorings, whence no windless may extract nor any diver fish it up." It was indeed a unique experience for one of the master workers of the world, one whose subtle mintage of words had made his readers his friends, to settle in an uttermost isle of the Pacific. He throve there, and was able to enjoy the flavour of the life of adventure he had craved for, and to look into the bright face of danger. He built for himself a palace in the wild named Vailima. ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson • E. Blantyre Simpson

... two similes, of the right Shakespeare mintage. As metaphors from the same hand, take this from Iachimo's temptation of Imogen, "This object, which takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye"; and this from Viola, urging ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson



Words linked to "Mintage" :   mint, fee, currency, craft



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