DictionaryRoot: coignage
Old French

coignage

coining or coined money

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Loose coins and short coin stacks fill the foreground.
noun

coinage

KOY-nij/ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ/

Coins considered collectively.

Etymology

The process of coining money extended to deliberately forming new words.

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