seigniorage
noun
something claimed by a sovereign or superior as a prerogative.
seignorage
-
a variation of
seigniorage.
Example Sentences
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To a moderate seignorage on the coinage of money there cannot be much objection, particularly on that currency which is to effect the smaller payments.
From On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo
If the seignorage had been two per cent, there would have been neither profit nor loss.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier
Upon the advantage of seignorage in the coining of money—book 4, chap. vi.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier
They would neither lose nor gain, therefore, upon the whole transaction, and they would in this, as in all the foregoing cases, be exactly in the same situation as if there was no seignorage.
From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
With that domain they had as little to do as with the seignorage levied on tin in the Duchy of Cornwall, or with the church patronage of the Duchy of Lancaster.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
