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As this tax money must by law be paid in Hebrew coin, the money-changing business was established and the favored ones who were allowed to operate in the Temple took the best places which they filled with chests and sacks of Hebrew money, mostly mites and farthings, and with unfilled boxes and bags in which to store the foreign coin taken in at an exorbitant exchange profit.

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  1. noun A small piece of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized by a government for use as money.
  2. noun Metal money considered as a whole.
  3. noun A flat circular piece or object felt to resemble metal money: a pizza topped with coins of pepperoni.
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  • Ostensibly, this coin was a half dollar; actually it was made of a radioactive metal which worked upon a hidden relay and electroscope combination which opened and closed the door. —  048 - The Derrick Devil
  • Other side of the coin were the people Rollo called the bad guys—perps who sold candy to sixth graders or smack to anyone, scum who did the rape thing or played at sex with kids, dumb-shits who didn't get the message in the alley, and anyone with a gun. —  AHMM,October2007
  • He said the creature on the coin was a dragon, and he asked me if I had ever seen this dragon anywhere else, on a building or a book. —  The Historian
  • On the other side of the coin was a homeless, sickly-looking man in old clothes and with holes in his shoes, who had bought some sausage-rolls, never suspecting that he would not eat them. —  Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets - 04—Simenon, Georges
  • He suspected that the coin was a bait to draw him near enough to be grabbed. —  Mary Balogh - Truly
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gold ·  jewel ·  money ·  cash ·  currency ·  treasure ·  jewelry ·  card ·  clothe ·  ornament ·  bead ·  paper

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coin:   coins ·  coined

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, die for stamping coins, wedge, from Latin cuneus, wedge.

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  1. from Middle English coyn, coyne, coigne, coin, money, from Old French coin, a wedge, stamp, coin, later coing, corner, French coin, wedge, stamp, die, usually corner, = Provencal cunh, conh, cong = Spanish cuño, cuña = Portuguese cunho = Italian conio, from Latin cuneus, a wedge, akin to Greek κῶνος, a peg, cone (later ult. English cone), and to English hone, q. v. In the senses ‘corner, angle,’ which are later in English, the word is often spelled coign (after later Old French coing, coign) or quoin.
  2. from Middle English coynen, coignen; from the noun.
  3. Middle English, from Old French coin, coing, modern F. coing = Provencal codoing = Italian codogna, cotogna, from Middle Latin *codonium,*codonia, cotoneum, cotonea, etc., variant of cidonium, cidonia, cydonium, cydonia, ult. from Latin cydonia, cotonia, cotonea, a quince. From a late form of coin, namely quine, quyne, is derived the present English form quince: see quince, codiniac, quiddany.
 

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