What does "coinage" mean?

Coinage: Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.

Additional senses

  1. 2.The cost or expense of coining money.
  2. 3.The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. "Unnecessary coinage . . . of words." Dryden. This is the very coinage of your brain. Shak.

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