Definition of coin

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Coin (n.) A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense..

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Mancus :: Mancus (n.) An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money..
Present :: Present (a.) Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident.
Coin :: Coin (n.) A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin..
Light :: Light (superl.) Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished; as, light coin..
Sigla :: Sigla (n. pl.) The signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc..
Plane :: Plane (a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator..
Superposition :: Superpose (v. t.) To lay (a figure) upon another in such a manner that all the parts of the one coincide with the parts of the other; as, to superpose one plane figure on another..
Blank :: Blank (n.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts..
Centesimo :: Centesimo (n.) A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime.
Dipleidoscope :: Dipleidoscope (n.) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian..
Napoleon :: Napoleon (n.) A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86..
Batz :: Batz (n.) A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents..
Tail :: Tail (n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression heads or tails, employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall..
Coincidence :: Coincidence (n.) The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson..
Nummulary :: Nummulary (a.) Having the appearance or form of a coin.
Mint :: Mint (v. t.) To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money..
Angelot :: Angelot (n.) A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI..
Liard :: Liard (n.) A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou.
Milling :: Milling (n.) The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill..
Shroffage :: Shroffage (n.) The examination of coins, and the separation of the good from the debased..
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