'Mintage' definitions:
Definition of 'mintage'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
Fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin
noun
Act or process of minting coins
Definition of 'Mintage'
From: GCIDE
- Mintage \Mint"age\, n.
- 1. The coin, or other production, made in a mint. [1913 Webster]
- Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage. --Sterling. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The duty paid to the mint for coining. At one time people could bring precious metals, as gold or silver, to a mint and receive in return coins of the same value, minus the commision charged by the mint, which was the mintage. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 3. The act or process of minting[1]; as, a coin of recent mintage. [PJC]
- 4. The quantity of coins of a specific type made by the mint; as, coins of low mintage tend to be more valuable as collectors' items. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'mintage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- and pence,
- artifact,
- authorship,
- beginning,
- brainchild,
- cash,
- child,
- circulating medium,
- coinage,
- coined liberty,
- coining,
- cold cash,
- composition,
- conception,
- concoction,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- counterfeiting,
- creation,
- creative effort,
- creature,
- crowning achievement,
- currency,
- devising,
- distillation,
- dollars,
- effect,
- emergency money,
- end product,
- essence,
- extract,
- fabrication,
- filthy lucre,
- forgery,
- fractional currency,
- fruit,
- generation,
- gold,
- handiwork,
- hard cash,
- hard currency,
- hatching,
- improvisation,
- invention,
- issue,
- legal tender,
- lucre,
- making do,
- mammon,
- managed currency,
- manufacture,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- medium of exchange,
- money,
- necessity money,
- new mintage,
- offspring,
- opera,
- opus,
- opuscule,
- origination,
- outcome,
- outgrowth,
- pelf,
- postage currency,
- postal currency,
- pounds,
- product,
- production,
- result,
- scrip,
- shillings,
- silver,
- soft currency,
- specie,
- stamping,
- sterling,
- striking,
- the almighty dollar,
- the wherewith,
- the wherewithal,
- work