uncoined
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The gold bullion, or gold in bars and blocks uncoined, is for all practical purposes as good as the coin, and in foreign trade is much used, it being more convenient to handle.
From Government and Administration of the United States by Westel W. Willoughby
But an agio on coined over uncoined metal is quite possible, and has frequently occurred.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
Where free coinage is suspended, the peculiar services which only money can perform—or rather, the services which money has a differential advantage in performing—may easily lead to an agio for coined over uncoined metal.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
And the military engines, the huge galleys with three banks of oars one above another, the treasures of coined and uncoined gold and silver!
From A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Felix Dahn
The figures of the same table show that in 1873 a coined silver dollar of 412½ grains would buy 51⁄3 pounds of cotton; to-day 412½ grains of uncoined silver will buy 6¾ pounds of cotton.
From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by John P. (John Percival) Jones
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