Definition of Coin

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Definition of Coin

Coin

A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.

A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense.

That which serves for payment or recompense.

To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.

To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

To manufacture counterfeit money.

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Coin Quotations

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.
Dave Barry

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Euripides

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Joseph Conrad

The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.
Kinky Friedman

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George Sand

Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine.
Flip Wilson

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
Orville Wright

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

Coin Translations

coin in Afrikaans is munt, geldstuk, muntstuk
coin in Dutch is munt, penning, geldstuk
coin in Italian is moneta, zecca
coin in Latin is lamnia lammina lamna
coin in Norwegian is mynt
coin in Portuguese is moeda
coin in Spanish is moneda

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