Crossword clues for mintage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mintage \Mint"age\, n.
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The coin, or other production, made in a mint.
Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage.
--Sterling. 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.
The act or process of minting[1]; as, a coin of recent mintage.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of minting coins 2 The batch of coins minted at one time 3 Coins collectively; specie 4 The fee paid to a mint
WordNet
n. coins collectively [syn: coinage, specie, metal money]
fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin
act or process of minting coins
Usage examples of "mintage".
SPIRIT OF THE YEARS Those words of this man Pitt--his last large words, As I may prophesy--that ring to-night In their first mintage to the feasters here, Will spread with ageing, lodge, and crystallize, And stand embedded in the English tongue Till it grow thin, outworn, and cease to be.
The sun crossed his vision and his helmet dusked to save it, turning the disc to dull gold, a coin on which the spots were a mintage he could not read.