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coinage
noun
coin·age
ˈkȯi-nij
Synonyms of coinage
1
: the act or process of coining
2
a
: coins
b
: something (such as a word) made up or invented
Synonyms
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creation
innovation
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Examples of coinage in a Sentence
The word “blog” is a recent coinage.
Coinage was scarce in the colonies.
an expert in Chinese coinage
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Words are the coinage of human communication.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
An extraordinary coin with only 109 minted, epitomizing the elegance and rarity of the era's coinage.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2024
Beyond the extra coinage, there’s hope that theatrical releases lead to a longer-lasting cultural impact.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
That coinage would be melted down into ingots, then crafted into wearable art including cuffs, bracelets and necklaces.
—Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2024
When visitors arrive in Cuba, foreign coinage is exchanged into a special currency known as a CUC – a Cuban convertible peso.
—Moriah Balingit, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
Of course, movie theater ticket sales won’t come close to the actual tour’s coinage, which reportedly amassed a staggering $579 million worldwide.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
Such coinages usually happen in retrospect, but why not start now?
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
The coinage was almost a joke, and the joke was on us.
—Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
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14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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coinage
noun
coin·age
ˈkȯi-nij
1
: the act or process of coining
2
: coin entry 1 sense 2
3
: something (as a word) made up or invented
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Forming New Words: Coinages, Nonce Words, English Loanwords and Calques
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This post is part of the series: Word Formation: Creating New Words in English
Coinages
Coinage is the word formation process in which a new word is created either deliberately or accidentally without using the other word formation processes and often from seemingly nothing. For example, the following list of words provides some common coinages found in everyday English:
aspirin
escalator
heroin
band-aid
factoid
Frisbee
kerosene
Kleenex
Laundromat
linoleum
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Nonce Words
[caption id=“attachment_130717” align=“aligncenter” width=“512”] The Jaberwocky is an example of nonce words[/caption] Nonce words are new words formed through any number of word formation processes with the resulting word meeting a lexical need that is not expected to recur. Nonce words are created for the nonce, the term for the nonce meaning “for a single occasion.” For example, the follow list of words provides some nonce words with definitions as identified in the Oxford English Dictionary.
cotton-wool – to stuff or close (the ears) with cotton-wool.
jabberwock – The name of the fabulous monster in Lewis Carroll’s poem Jabberwocky. Hence in allusive and extended uses, especially “incoherent or nonsensical expression.” So jabberwocky is invented language, meaningless language, nonsensical behavior; also nonsensical, meaningless, topsy-turvy.
touch-me-not-ishness – having a “touch-me-not” character; stand-off-ish.
twi-thought – an indistinct or vague thought.
witchcraftical – The practices of a witch or witches; the exercise of supernatural power supposed to be possessed by persons in league with the devil or evil spirits. Power or influence like that of a magician; bewitching or fascinating attraction or charm.
Note that although most nonce words come in and out of use very quickly, some nonce words catch on and become everyday words. For example, Lewis Carroll coined the word chortle, a blend of chuckle and snort, for the poem Jabberwocky in the book Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There; unlike most nonce words, however, chortle has gained acceptance as a legitimate blended word.
English Loanwords
Loanwords are the word formation process in which a word from one language is borrowed directly into another language. For example, the following common English words are borrowed from foreign languages:
algebra – Arabic
bagel – Yiddish
cherub – Hebrew
chow mein – Chinese
fjord – Norwegian
galore – Irish
haiku – Japanese
kielbasa – Polish
murder – French
near – Sanskrit
paprika – Hungarian
pizza – Italian
smorgasbord – Swedish
tamale – Spanish
yo-yo – Tagalog
English loanwords are also referred to as borrowed.
Calquing
Calquing is the word formation process in which a borrowed word or phrase is translated from one language to another. For example, the following common English words are calqued from foreign languages:
beer garden – German – Biergarten
blue-blood – Spanish – sangre azul
commonplace – Latin – locus commūnis
flea market – French – marché aux puces
free verse – French – vers libre
loanword – German – Lehnwort
long time no see – Chinese – hǎo jiǔ bu jiàn
pineapple – Dutch – pijnappel
scapegoat – Hebrew – ez ozel
wisdom tooth – Latin – dēns sapientiae
Calques are also referred to as root-for-root or word-for-word translations. Image Credits Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Jaberwock Image
This post is part of the series: Word Formation: Creating New Words in English
The articles in this series define and exemplify the most common word formation processes, or the creation of new words, in English including derivation, back-formation, conversion, compounding, clipping, blending, abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms, coinages, nonce words, borrowing, and calquing.
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[ U ] a set of coins of different values used in a country's money system: decimal coinage
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[ C or U ] (the inventing of) a new word or phrase in a language: The expression "boy band" is a 1990s coinage.
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politics & government money made of coins
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MONEY a set of coins of different values used in a country's money system: Only when their local coinage disappears will they develop a euro mindset.
See also
debasement of coinage
standard coinage
token coinage
(Definition of coinage from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of coinage
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In both languages, such coinages seem to first appear around age two, and in both, the coinages seem designed to fill lexical gaps.
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Speakers presumably show a similar preference in their own coinages.
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I then argue that productivity must be assessed from use in coinages.
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Evidence that they do comes from regularizations of inflections and from coinages.
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Of the two coinages we commonly exchange and which are liable to debasement, language is far more damaging than money.
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Systematic trends in spontaneous coinages first suggested that children apply general acquisitional principles in word formation.
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Actual coinages then become the criterion for measuring productivity.
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Such coinages form the topic of this and the next chapter.
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In fact, these coinages accounted for two-fifths of the novel nouns produced by four- and five-year-olds.
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Such uses were rare compared with intransitive coinages.
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The forms that appear more frequently in coinages are thereby considered the most productive of the options available.
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There, children should produce few early coinages since it takes time for them to analyze the options that are available.
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Overall, simplicity should show up early in children's coinages provided the language offers simple options for constructing new words.
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The most important generalisation about these coinages is that they cannot be improved upon.
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錢, 貨幣系統，貨幣制度, 新的詞語…
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monedas, sistema monetario, neologismo…
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/ˈkɔɪ.nɪdʒ/ uk
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[ U ] a set of coins of different values used in a country's money system: decimal coinage
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Currencies
Altcoin
ariary
bimetallism
bitcoin
buying power
decimal currency
escudo
franc
guilder
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lira
monometallism
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politics & government money made of coins
politics & government Coinage is also a system or type of money used in a country.
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MONEY a set of coins of different values used in a country's money system: Only when their local coinage disappears will they develop a euro mindset.
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standard coinage
token coinage
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We became, in the coinage of one paleoanthropologist, "mampires" who feed on the fluids of other animals.
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Some of this wasn't really his coinage, but we'll get into that later.
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It has a lot to do with the way it came into the language -- often through religious writings and technical coinages.
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Ironically, there's no similar limit on the amount of coinage.
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I take it all in: the fancy water, the chinos, the fact that he is too young to remember coinage.
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Matter has its own coinage, and the hardest science of all, physics, seemed to have reached maturity.
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He is the first mint engraver to produce a definitive royal coinage portrait in more than a century, the organization said.
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If credit systems served so well for thousands of years, why was coinage invented to begin with?
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Undeterred, media outlets seized on the 2002 citation as the original "coinage" of the word.
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Budget-induced alterations in coinage are hardly a new idea.
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Coinage was not only a brilliant economic invention -- it was also a great political one.
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Only one thing is certain: other coinages are waiting in the wings to replace them.
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He proudly claims that his famous catchphrases, like branding healthcare reform a "government takeover" in 2010, are not his coinages but the organic product of his focus groups.
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錢, 貨幣系統，貨幣制度, 新的詞語…
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Coinage
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Definition
by Jan van der Crabben
published on 28 April 2011
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Commemorative coin of Euthydemos from Agathokles of BactriaWildwinds.com, courtesy of cngcoins.com. Republished with permission (Copyright)
Coins were introduced as a method of payment around the 6th or 5th century BCE. The invention of coins is still shrouded in mystery: According to Herodotus (I, 94), coins were first minted by the Lydians, while Aristotle claims that the first coins were minted by Demodike of Kyrme, the wife of King Midas of Phrygia. Numismatists consider that the first coins were minted on the Greek island of Aegina, either by the local rulers or by King Pheidon of Argos.
Aegina, Samos, and Miletus all minted coins for the Egyptians, through the Greek trading post of Naucratis in the Nile Delta. It is certain that when Lydia was conquered by the Persians in 546 BCE, coins were introduced to Persia. The Phoenicians did not mint any coins until the middle of the fifth century BCE, which quickly spread to the Carthaginians who minted coins in Sicily. The Romans only started minting coins from 326 BCE.
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Coins were brought to India through the Achaemenid Empire, as well as the successor kingdoms of Alexander the Great. Especially the Indo-Greek kingdoms minted (often bilingual) coins in the 2nd century BCE. The most beautiful coins of the classical age are said to have been minted by Samudragupta (335-376 CE), who portrayed himself as both a conqueror and a musician.
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The first coins were made of electrum, an alloy of silver and gold. It appears that many early Lydian coins were minted by merchants as tokens to be used in trade transactions. The Lydian state also minted coins, most of the coins mentioning King Alyattes of Lydia. Some Lydian coins have a so-called legend, a sort of dedication. One famous example found in Caria reads "I am the badge of Phanes" - it is still unclear who Phanes was.
In China, gold coins were first standardized during the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BCE). After the fall of the Qin dynasty, the Han emperors added two other legal tenders: silver coins and "deerskin notes", a predecessor of paper currency which was a Chinese invention.
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Arthur Cotterell. The Pimlico Dictionary Of Classical Civilizations. Vintage Digital, 2011.
Herodotus. Edited by Robert B. Strassler. The Landmark Herodotus. Pantheon Books, 2012.
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c. 700 BCE
Coins first minted on the island of Aegina.
c. 635 BCE - 585 BCE
Reign of Alyattes of Lydia. Minting of first coins made from electrum.
600 BCE - 550 BCE
The silver stater coin of Calymna in Caria depicts a tortoise shell lyre on its reverse side.
600 BCE - 300 BCE
Dionysos appears on the coins of Naxos, Mende and various other Greek city states.
c. 560 BCE
Croesus of Lydia first manufactures coins of solid gold.
560 BCE - 546 BCE
Reign of Croesus of Lydia.
c. 550 BCE
The silver drachma of Delos depicts a lyre - symbolic of Apollo - on its reverse side.
470 BCE
Gortyn on Crete begins to mint its own coinage.
c. 360 BCE
Pan appears on the reverse of coins of the Arcadian League.
326 BCE
The first Roman coins are minted at Neapolis.
c. 211 BCE
A new system of Roman coinage is introduced which includes the silver denarius.
c. 200 BCE
Rome now dominates the production of coinage in Italy.
c. 157 BCE
There is a boom in the production of Roman silver coinage, in part thanks to the acquisition of silver mines in Macedonia.
c. 141 BCE
The Roman bronze as coin is devalued so that now 16 as equal one silver denarius.
c. 135 BCE
The Roman magistrates responsible for coinage begin to stamp coins with images of landmarks, events and personalities.
c. 100 BCE
Coins of Kos and Thespiai depict a lyre on their reverse side.
c. 46 BCE
Julius Caesar mints the largest quantity of gold coins ever seen in Rome.
c. 23 BCE
The brass orichalcum sestertius is first minted in Rome.
16 BCE
The Roman mint at Lugdunum is established.
64 CE
Nero reduces the weight and percentage of precious metal in Roman coins, a trend continued by several subsequent Roman emperors.
293 CE
Diocletian reforms the Roman coinage system, guaranteeing the gold aurei at 60 to a pound and minting the nummus coin.
301 CE
Diocletian reasseses the values of Roman coins and limits minting rights to between 12 and 15 mints across the empire.
312 CE
Constantine I introduces the gold nomisma (solidus) coin.
708 CE
Japan's first coinage, the Wado kaiho, is introduced.
996 CE
The first Korean coins are minted by the Goryeo Dynasty.
1097 CE
The Goryeo king, Sukjong, mints copper coins in Korea.
1102 CE
The Goryeo king, Sukjong, mints a second issue of copper coins in Korea.
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Coinage may refer to:
Coins, standardized as currency
Coining (mint), the process of manufacturing coins
COINage, a numismatics magazine
Tin coinage, a tax on refined tin
Coinage, a protologism or neologism
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Coin (disambiguation)
Coining (disambiguation)
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In both languages, such coinages seem to first appear around age two, and in both, the coinages seem designed to fill lexical gaps.
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Speakers presumably show a similar preference in their own coinages.
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I then argue that productivity must be assessed from use in coinages.
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Evidence that they do comes from regularizations of inflections and from coinages.
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Of the two coinages we commonly exchange and which are liable to debasement, language is far more damaging than money.
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Systematic trends in spontaneous coinages first suggested that children apply general acquisitional principles in word formation.
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Actual coinages then become the criterion for measuring productivity.
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Such coinages form the topic of this and the next chapter.
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In fact, these coinages accounted for two-fifths of the novel nouns produced by four- and five-year-olds.
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Such uses were rare compared with intransitive coinages.
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The forms that appear more frequently in coinages are thereby considered the most productive of the options available.
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There, children should produce few early coinages since it takes time for them to analyze the options that are available.
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Overall, simplicity should show up early in children's coinages provided the language offers simple options for constructing new words.
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The most important generalisation about these coinages is that they cannot be improved upon.
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How many of these 20th-century coinages can you identify and define?
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Precious metal coinages and the mass disbursements of imported wine, attested in a few regions archaeologically, fit comfortably into an analysis of this kind.
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A strictly phonological account is out of the question, as is seen by the impeccable word-based coinages in (90d).
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All the names from vocabulary words, on the other hand, are feminine, and so too literary coinages are feminine.
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However, neither nineteenth-century nomenclature, nor new coinages, nor even the general outlines of the tradition have met with scholarly consensus.
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Such coinages have made many people wonder what such a war might be like: certainly very different from the paradoxically peaceful phrase 'war on want' as used some decades ago.
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Among new coinages in our corpus mention may be made of workship (dedication to work), after-life (the next life in the cycle of rebirth), home-maker (builder of the family, guardian).
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Other frequent and potentially long-lived words include e-book, e-business, e-commerce, e-shopping, and e-tailer, but the popularity of such coinages as e-ballot, e-grocer, e-zine, and many others remains to be seen.
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Most of the coinages will never become institutionalised (though who can say, after this article?) but they exist, probably in very large numbers, and remain unacknowledged.
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The point has been made that in the coinages of other countries there are no fractions.
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Instead of a common national currency there would be a confusion of local coinages.
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Although for the most part the coinages managed to keep approximately together during the next half century, increasing strains were felt.
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The cashiers there are able to deal with the different coinages, and so are the public.
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The fact is that at this point of time we have to recognise that during the change-over there will be the question of handling the two different coinages.
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Both coinages were denominated in baisa (equivalent to the paisa), with 200 baisa to the rial.
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The adoption of loanwords is shown to be a common process, although for these 77 items, it is a little less common than descriptive coinage.
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Their conflicting interests resulted in a dual coinage with the official sums stated in pure coins and the actual payments made in current coins.
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Copper coinage was the domestic currency that hitherto had enjoyed a credibility bestowed by its official acceptance.
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However, the striking of coinage need not have been a permanent practice and may also have occurred in the context of tournaments of value.
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Such a coinage on the pattern of an earlier one is common in acronym-formation.
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Decimal reckoning would not only reconcile coinage to simple number theory, but also would make the exercise of accounting apparent to the plainest inhabitant.
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The diverse coinage and bills of credit that circulated earlier had served to confirm the political boundaries of the states.
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Such errors include over-regularizations of the semantics of the binyanim and the coinage of novel verbs to fill lexical gaps.
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Moreover, not only was the coinage substituted, the whole class system and economic life underwent a total transformation.
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Does such self-coinage, in the guise of coinage of the self, make them counterfeit?
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Numismatic evidence suggests some division of royal authority, with several coinages being struck.
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Were he alive today, what would he think about the revival of his idea so many decades after its coinage?
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No one doubts that these were mythical capital around which exchange and, perhaps, coinage were organized.
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To find the items for the wordlist, they cull them from quotidian speech or invent them in moments of on-the-spot coinage.
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What followed in the next phase was the prevalent use of tegata in a currency economy, more precisely a copper coinage economy.
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Coinage was not issued by the government to facilitate exchange in general; it served only the purpose of making state payments easier.
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The only possible recourse is to wholesale coinage (starting with the titular category itself) and plunder (from classical rhetoric, speech-act theory, structuralism, deconstruction).
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In the short term, debasements provided relief from shortages of specie and coinage in circulation by increasing the nominal value of the coinage in circulation.
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The coinage was probably not directly connected with them.
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The period saw the final disappearance of what had become a heavily debased gold coinage, and a massive expansion of the succeeding silver sceatta currency.
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Five separate statutes were included: larceny, malicious damage to property, forgery, coinage, and offences against the person.
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An abbot, an archbishop, and the viking raids of 1006-7 and 1009-12 century, and, in combination, provide a remarkable analogy for the coinage.
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By contrast, just nine are given over to the economy, covering agriculture, coinage, taxes and trade.
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When we look in detail at the language of the song, we find it, too, to be a double-sided coinage.
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In contrast, there are a fair number of proverbs whose coinage is known.
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Rather, it is presented as a ubiquitous explanatory framework, the common ideological coinage of all sectors of society.
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Cash in the form of silver coinage- regardless of its national origin-was acceptable at any time for the purposes of procuring goods.
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The copper coinage was allowed to circulate in the jurisdiction of the governor who minted the coin.
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European sources for this period are scarce and give di^erent values for the coinage.
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The chronology of these coinages is still not defined with precision, primarily because the historical background of their issuance remains little known.
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Prices almost always rose in the aftermath of debasements because a debasement typically increased the nominal value of coinage in circulation.
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After coinage, the government returned the coined silver to private producers, except for taxed amounts.
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The main source of demand for gold coinage at that time was trade.
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One of the effects of these new coinages was to reduce the overlap between demotic and "katharevousa" vocabulary.
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Significant historically recent coinages date to scientific terms of the 19th century.
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There were no objections to what amounted to a grant of monopoly for coinage - the provision was unanimously accepted by the delegates.
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A few of the names are quite old and well-known; most are recent coinages mainly used by journalists.
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The shortage of coinage was explicitly stated as the reason that workers in the cloth trade of the early sixteenth century were paid in truck.
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By that were meant the new coinage with the profiles of the royal couple facing each other, jointly confirming the soundness of their coins.
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I will examine this apparent paradox (presence of bullion but absence of coinage) in some detail.
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In more recent years, there has been a reaction against such borrowing, resulting in coinages for technical vocabulary.
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Real cities being very few and far between, the only other possible need for coinage was the annual taxation routine.
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The authors are at pains to offer a range of interpretations of their data, but the importance of the sculpture in complementing the evidence of placenames and coinage is clear.
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The farming population's needs for coinage were minimal: in most villages, apart from a couple of itinerant merchants selling small goods, everything was obtained via simple exchange or barter.
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I interpret the presence of the names of monetarii as a sign that the coinage was linked only indirectly to the dayto-day political sphere of power.
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Metal currency circulation during the medieval period, for example, was fundamentally copper coinage, whereas in the early modern period there was simultaneous usage of gold, silver, and copper coin.
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The use of the tegata draft in the coinage economy experienced a large change at the start of the sixteenth century when gold and silver replaced it.
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Using the kirizukai method of cutting a silver ingot into smaller pieces, silver was a highly versatile precious metal that could easily function as small denomination coinage.
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The important point for the present argumentation however is that, given the right context, there's nothing that prevents the coinage of a spring's day or an autumn's day.
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A shortage of coinage in the region seems the most likely explanation for this, although local preferences for traditional modes of exchange may also have played some part.
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Most men and women, urban and rural, were clear about the consequences of different ways of dealing with the coinage and about who gained and who lost.
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The first part of the seventeenth century was also difficult because prices were expressed (and followed) in silver coinage that was, again, losing its value against gold.
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Jocular or facetious coinages as conscious back-formation.
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The word itself is a lovely word, and we like to think that our token coinage does contain silver.
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I am concerned at the kind of coinage which we shall have in the future.
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We are dealing with coinage, that is, with something which is comparatively unimportant.
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I believe coinage has a most profound symbolic value and a psychological effect.
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Silver coinage in this country has had a very long history.
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The new, smaller 5p and 10p coins were introduced in response to public demand for a lighter coinage and followed extensive research and consultation.
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I believe that the major argument for retaining it is this question of landmarks in our coinage system.
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I agree with him that the five and ten new penny pieces will assist people to convert to the new form of coinage.
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I would like to have some explanation of how it has been absorbed, and why coinage of gold has been doubled.
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My information is that it is not the new coinage.
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The explanation given of the exceptionally large amount of gold coinage to my mind is not quite satisfactory.
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To a foreigner, our new system of coinage will be even more complicated than the present system.
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We may be certain that if this were a desirable feature of a decimal coinage someone would have thought of it before now.
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There is no reason why we should not put a half into the coinage.
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The other side of the coinage of local government reform, namely, finance and taxation, was avoided because it was difficult.
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Is he aware that the hiatus caused by none of the machines taking the necessary coinage and the lack of staff is causing enormous delays?
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He was happy that it went through the normal coinage.
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