uncoined
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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He opened the money-safe; he contemplated the neatly-arranged papers, and the drawers that contained the coined and uncoined gold.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
Letters from Posen allude to an ukase which had appeared, compelling all individuals throughout Russia and Poland to sell to the government, within a specified period, whatever uncoined silver they might have in their possession.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
In mountain-veins, walls underground, Is gold, both coined and uncoined, to be found.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno
Stoffel Brinkerhoff made great spoil of oysters and clams, coined and uncoined, and then set out on his return to the Manhattoes.
From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Irving, Washington
Bars of uncoined treasure and ingots of massy gold lie in His storehouses, to be put into circulation as soon as we need, and can use, them.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander
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