unminted

Bullion refers to unminted precious metals of standards suitable for coining.

Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

Bullion refers to unminted precious metals of standards suitable for coining.

Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

Never mind those unfilled library shelves: At least 200 additions to the language, ranging from "old dear" to "devil-may-care," would have gone unminted, making posterity's loss as much lexicographical as literary.

Snapshots of 'Boz' D.J. Taylor 2011

He took the unminted gold into his own hands, fingering it and studying it.

The Desert Valley Jackson Gregory 1912

Hundreds of millions, in unminted gold and silver, lie under their careless feet, yet their "pieces of eight" date back to Robinson Crusoe!

The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Richard Savage 1874

Of bank-notes there are few, or none -- the currency of California being through the medium of metal; at this date, 1849, most of it unminted, and in its crude state, as it came out of the mine, or the river's mud.

The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850

: telling them take their time, yungfries, and wait till the tide stops (for from the first his day was a fortnight) and offering the prize of a bittersweet crab, a little present from the past, for their copper age was yet unminted, to the winner.

Finnegans Wake 2006