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uncoined

British  
/ ʌnˈkɔɪnd /

adjective

  1. (of a metal) not made into coin

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Coined metal thus rarely gets, save to a limited extent or temporarily, an agio over uncoined bullion.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

There were also no less than five witnesses; and an anomalous personage, the Libripens, who brought with him a pair of scales to weigh the uncoined copper money of ancient Rome.

From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir

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 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 Willoughby, Westel W.

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

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