uncoined
Britishadjective
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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
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 Anderson, Benjamin M.
The name given in China to uncoined silver in current use is “sycee.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
They whose dim perceptions had been bewildered by this new uncoined and uncoinable wealth, were glad to think that it had belonged to some far off time, or some distant region.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
If the premium be great enough, men, especially in large transactions, will make use of the uncoined metal—just as they did use gold in this country during the Greenback period.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
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