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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mint . - adjective made into
coinage ;coined - adjective chiefly UK (
slang )wealthy
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Examples
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All three are 1793 Wreath cents minted from the same pair of dies.
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Prices are moderate for most dates to PR67, and to PR69 for nickels minted from the early 1960s forward.
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How much is a uss monitor coin minted in 1863 worth?
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With all the cameras flashing in his face while he toiled to get the coin minted, he said modelling was fast becoming his new profession.
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The strength and the weakness were thus two sides of the same coin minted by Comte's sheer energy and persistence (or obstinacy, according to taste) which derived, in turn, from the strength of his motivation: the urgency of the social problem as he saw it; the need for a complete intellectual system as the means of solving it; and his conception of his own messianic mission.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas WALTER SIMON 1968
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Since the coins minted by feudal lords and kings were hard to pass except in limited districts, and since the danger of counterfeit or light-weight coins was far greater than now, the "money-changers" who would buy and sell the coins of different countries did a thriving business at
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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He divided ancient numismatics into two departments: the first contained the coins minted by cities other than Rome, arranged according to the geographical situation of the countries as far as this was possible; the second comprised all the coins of the Roman Empire.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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He came over the side, a sun god clad in the scarlet loin cloth, with presents of Arcady and greeting in both his hands — a bottle of golden honey and a leaf basket filled with great golden mangoes, golden bananas specked with freckles of deeper gold, golden pineapples and golden limes, and juicy oranges minted from the same precious ore of sun and soil.
"The Nature Man" 1908
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The coinage minted there may be recognized by the letter E placed beneath the king's head.
Exeter Sidney Heath 1907
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme said that until the coin was discovered, there were no known examples of William I coins minted in Gloucester between 1077-1080.
BBC News - Home 2012
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