mintmark

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noun

: a special letter or mark placed upon a coin at the time of coinage to identify the mint

The exergue map pattern … serves as a pictographic mintmark showing the location of the Sardinian mint with respect to the rest of the world.

—Mark A. McMenamin, Mercator's World, May/June 1997

mintmark

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transitive verb

"

: to place a mintmark upon (a coin)

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