Examples of coinage in a Sentence
The word “blog” is a recent coinage.
Coinage was scarce in the colonies.
an expert in Chinese coinage
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The Treasurer serves as the custodian and trustee of the federal government's collateral assets and the supervisor of the department's currency and coinage production functions.
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
More than 70 years before the coinage of the term, W.E.B. DuBois anticipated Afrofuturism with his 1920 short story The Comet.
—Shantay Robinson, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Kraft noted that the coin's obverse was identical to the 1806 British coinage, while the reverse was unique to the Bahamas.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
Other coinage acts throughout the years raised the gold-silver ratio, and the average ratio throughout the 20th century was closer to 47:1.
—Victor Rosario, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
More than 70 years before the coinage of the term, W.E.B. DuBois anticipated Afrofuturism with his 1920 short story The Comet.
—Shantay Robinson, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Kraft noted that the coin's obverse was identical to the 1806 British coinage, while the reverse was unique to the Bahamas.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
Other coinage acts throughout the years raised the gold-silver ratio, and the average ratio throughout the 20th century was closer to 47:1.
—Victor Rosario, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Coinage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coinage. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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coinage
noun
coin·age
ˈkȯi-nij 
1
: the act or process of coining
3
: something (as a word) made up or invented
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