coin
noun
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
coinable
-
a word derived from
coin.
Example Sentences
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It is because the lump of fused gold is coinable again into dollars that it retains its value.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
Everybody who has a premonitory symptom of common sense knows that the lump of fused silver will—if coinable again into dollars—be worth just as much as the lump of fused gold.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
It is because the lump of fused silver is not coinable again, under the present order, that it is not worth ten dollars.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
