coinage

• “I think our coinage is artistically of atrocious hideousness.”

  Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle, Without Motto, 1907-1908 : Coin Guide

• “Another Italian word, imbroglio, “a confused entanglement,” was used by editors of The New Republic in a portmanteau coinage.”

  Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

• “There's probably no more irksome character than the humble hyphen, and though I'd love to develop a devil-may-care attitude toward it (got the bugger right that time, I reckon!), my newest coinage is hyphenhate, so you can guess just how I feel after 39713 of them and still counting.”

  Hyphenhation

• “Then, as now, the change in coinage was politically sensitive because the public had expressed dissatisfaction with lightweight British copper coins.”

  Liberty Cap Cent, 1793-1796 : Coin Guide

• “Stand back, everybody, I feel a new word coinage coming on.”

  The Huffington Post: Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [148] -- Aliens Landing?

• “They are, to lift a Wordsworthian coinage from the 1805 version of”

  Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian

• “His Highness, however, has not notified in what way the new coinage is to be introduced, and the old coins withdrawn from circulation.”

  Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

• “[T] he material used in the Cabool coinage is almost entirely Company's Rupees about 22,00,000 of the latter having been melted down last year when the number of Cabool Rupees struck was 27,65,612 and the quantity of bullion brought to the mint equal in weight to only Company's Rupees 85,258.”

  Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

• “Leśniewski later dropped the term ˜mnogość™ and instead invented the term ˜Mereology™, meaning ˜theory of parts™, an irregular coinage from the Greek μερÎς, part, in order to differentiate his view from what he ironically called”

  Stanisław Leśniewski

• “Senators from the silver producing states, and especially Stewart, were continually harping on "the crime of 1873," as they called the coinage act of that year, a careful statement of which has already been made in these volumes.”

  Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.

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