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  • noun Obsolete spelling of coin.

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Examples

  • Ownlee if yu has a coyn to put in teh slot…mai Mummeh nebberebberebber let me has a go awn teh ryds owtsyd teh soopermarkit!

    Can I eat her now? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Well sung brother, you have paid your debt in good coyn, we Anglers are all beholding to the good man that made this

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Auters pur ceo que le primer de cest Standard fuit coyn en le Castle de Sterlin in_

    Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 Various

  • I have taken care to examine him several times in the presence of Mr. Oxenbridge, as those who weigh and tell over money before some witnesse ere they take charge of it; for I thought that there might be possibly some lightness in the coyn, or errour in the telling, which hereafter I should be bound to make good.

    Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905

  • Well sung brother, you have paid your debt in good coyn, we

    The Complete Angler 1653 Izaak Walton 1638

  • The Power to coyn Mony; to dispose of the estate and persons of Infant heires; to have praeemption in Markets; and all other Statute Praerogatives, may be transferred by the Soveraign; and yet the Power to protect his Subject be retained.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • _] [Sidenote: iij flodes were sen in Tempse upon o day.] [Sidenote: The newe coyn for nobles.]

    A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum Anonymous 1823

  • "History," says Burnet, "is a sort of trade, in which false coyn and false weights are more criminal than in other matters; because the errour may go further and run longer, though their authors colour their copper too slightly to make it keep its credit long."] [Footnote 44: The volume was published in 8vo in 1704, as "An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the

    Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

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