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The word “blog” is a recent coinage.
Coinage was scarce in the colonies.
an expert in Chinese coinage
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It was presumably dropped into the federal melting pot to become the first but unacknowledged coinage of California gold.
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
The bottom line is, printing paper money or minting token coinage is easy profitable technology, but you are just not allowed to do it; that is the direction of travel at present.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
The buyers, a group that included coinage expert Mitch Spivack, resold it for $516,000 five days later.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
In Palmyra, local authorities fostered a distinct identity by issuing bilingual coinage and insisting that civic inscriptions on buildings be written in Greek as well as Palmyrene Aramaic.
—Peter Frankopan, Foreign Affairs, 7 June 2019
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
The bottom line is, printing paper money or minting token coinage is easy profitable technology, but you are just not allowed to do it; that is the direction of travel at present.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
The buyers, a group that included coinage expert Mitch Spivack, resold it for $516,000 five days later.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
In Palmyra, local authorities fostered a distinct identity by issuing bilingual coinage and insisting that civic inscriptions on buildings be written in Greek as well as Palmyrene Aramaic.
—Peter Frankopan, Foreign Affairs, 7 June 2019
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“Coinage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coinage. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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coinage
noun
coin·age
ˈkȯi-nij 
1
: the act or process of coining
3
: something (as a word) made up or invented
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