coin1 (koin)

[ ult. E. cone), and to E. hone, q. v. In the senses 'corner, angle,' which are later in E., the word is often spelled coign (after later OF. coing, coign ) or quoin.] 1. In arch., a corner or an angle. See quoin. Another, leveld by the Lesbian Squire, Deep vnder ground (for the Foundation) joins Well-polisht Marble, in long ma ie Coins . Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. 2. The specific name given to various wedge shaped pieces used for different purposes, as ( a ) for raising or lowering a piece of ordnance; (b) for locking a printers' form; (c) for fixing casks in their places, as on board a ship. See quoin.-3. A die employed for stamping money. Hence - 4. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, or some alloy, converted into money by impre ing on it officially authorized marks, figures, or characters: as, gold coins; a copper coin; counterfeit coins. Whanne the puple aposed [questioned] hym of a peny in the temple, And god askede of hem whas [whose] was the coygne. Piers Plowman (C), ii. 46. 5. Collectively, coined coinage;; 1094 of cidonium , cidonia , cydonium , cydonia , ult. cotonia , cotonea , a quince. From a late form of coin , namely quine , quyne , is derived the present E. form quince : see quince , codiniac, quiddany.] A quince. Rom. of the Rose. coinable (koi'na-bl), a . [ coin ], v ., + -able .] Ca- pable of being converted into coins. coinage (koi'nāj), n. [ coin +-age.] 1. The act, art, or proce of making coins.-2. Coin; money coined; pieces of metal stamped by the proper authority for use as a circulating medium. The archaic coins of Magna Græcia have a local peculiar- ity of fabric which distinguishes them from the other early coinages of Hellas. C. T. Newton , Art and Archæol., p. 406. Cheapne of coinage in England, where it costs nothing, will indeed make money be sooner brought to the mint. Locke , Considerations of Interest, etc. 4. The act or proce of forming or producing; invention; fabrication. Unnece ary coinage of words. 5. That which is fabricated or produced. This is the very coinage of your brain. Shak ., Hamlet, iii. 4. Bronze Coinage Act, an English statute of 1859 (22 and 23 Vict., c. 30), making the coinage laws applicable to bronze or mixed metal coins. - Coinage ratio, the ratio which expre es the equivalence in value between gold and silver under the (then existing) mint law. Thus, in the United States, under the law of 1837, it is 15.988 to 1: that coinheritance more points coincide. Line and plane of coincidence are similarly defined. - Principle of coincidence, the principle expre ed by a formula of coincidence.