uncoined
Britishadjective
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Thus, for instance, people gave wheat, other commodities, and even uncoined gold and silver as loans, and had what interest they pleased promised them.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm
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 Jones, John P. (John Percival)
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
The term "social service," which is on every one's lips now, was as yet uncoined when David Livingstone was born.
From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore
After the departure of Hannibal, vast heaps of brass were found there, as the soldiers, from a religious feeling, had thrown in pieces of uncoined brass.
From The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livius, Titus
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