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mintage|ˈmɪntɪdʒ|
[f. mint v.1 or n.1 + -age.]
1. The action or process (occas. the privilege) of coining or minting money; coinage.
c1570MS. Rawlinson D. 23 lf. 13 A treatyse concerninge the myntage of the monyes. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. xxxviii. §14. 342 He did [enrich] certaine Cities with the Mintage of his money, whereof in London were eight houses,..at Lewis two [etc.]. 1779Gentl. Mag. XLIX. 410 A curious account by the President of the Roman mintage under Honorius and Arcadius. 1820D. Turner Tour Normandy II. 261 From time immemorial, the chapter has enjoyed the right of mintage. 1824Byron Juan xv. vii, Bright as a new Napoleon from its mintage. 1853Humphreys Coin-Coll. Man. I. xxiv. 344 Coins of Roman mintage.
2. transf. and fig. The fabrication or production of something compared to coin; the ‘coining’ or deliberate formation of a new word, etc.
a1631Donne Valed. Weeping 4 Let me powre forth My teares before thy face,..For thy face coines them, and thy stampe they beare, And by this Mintage they are something worth. 1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ Diat. vi. 315 They had the monopoly and mintage of godliness. 1662Sir A. Mervyn Sp. Irish Aff. 2 It is now in its Mintage, and our care must be, that the Miter be not stampt instead of the Crown. 1745Warton Pleas. Melancholy 88 Which Reason's mintage fair Unmoulds, and stamps the monster on the man. 1839De Quincey Recoll. Lakes Wks. 1862 II. 116 A new word of German mintage. 1883Maine Early Law & Cust. 15 Few literary theories of modern mintage have more to recommend them.
3. concr. The product of a (particular) mint; a coin, or the coins collectively, minted by a specified person or in a specified place or country. Also transf. and fig. (cf. 2).
1638T. Carew in Cary's Malvezzi To Translator 10 Or what the Crusca yet For currant Tuscan mintage will admit. 1651Cleveland Poems 3 Thus did Natures mintage vary, Coyning thee a Philip and Mary. 1839J. Sterling Poems 167 Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage, All from dust receive their birth. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 42 The Romans..purposely sowed and buried their mintage. 1871Farrar Witn. Hist. iv. 147 Christianity..stamped them..and made them current amid the coins of a debased mintage. 1887Athenæum 5 Nov. 598/1 A timely withdrawal of the worn coins may lead to the substitution of a better class of mintages. 1888Ch. Times 341/3 Parodies of his most studied turns of phrase, witty travesties of his mintages.
4. The charge for or cost of coining; the duty paid for minting or coining.
1645Virginia Stat. (1823) I. 308 To allow for the mintage 12d. per pound soe there will remaine {pstlg}9500 sterl. The mintage allowed and deducted. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVIII. 240 Mintage, altarage, and small dues, are almost unknown. 1869[see coinage 1]. 1875Jevons Money xiv. 168 Some small savings would accrue from the less amount of mintage required.
5. The stamp or impression placed on a coin. In quots. fig.
1634Milton Comus 529 And the inglorious likenes of a beast Fixes instead, unmoulding reasons mintage Character'd in the face. a1664K. Philips Friendship Poems (1667) 78 Those kind Impressions which Fate can't controul, Are Heaven's mintage on a worthy Soul. 1822Byron Werner iii. i, Methinks it wears upon its face my guilt For motto, not the mintage of the state. 1882Times 6 Feb., Who thus became stamped with the common mintage of their colleagues' manners.
6. attrib., as mintage place, mintage system.
c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §276 (1810) 287 Con...implieth the mintage place. 1898Westm. Gaz. 6 Apr. 7/2 The early efforts of the Edwards to set the coin of the Realm on a proper mintage system. |