uncoined
Britishadjective
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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 Robert Taylor Conrad
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
Afterwards they weighed all the plate that was uncoined, reckoning after the rate of ten pieces of eight for every pound.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine
We took most of the money in gold uncoined, which is got out of the mountains in great quantities, and of which we shall have occasion to speak more hereafter.
From A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before by Daniel Defoe
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 Sir Henry Sumner Maine
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