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commemorative coins have been minted in the silver dollar denominations. In 1975 and 1976 U.S. Bicentennial coinage was minted. Regardless of date of coining, each...

reduced (thereby "debasing" the money), allowing the coining authority to produce more coins than would otherwise be possible. Debasement occasionally...

of the United States dollar. The money supply of a country comprises all currency in circulation (banknotes and coins currently issued) and, depending...

significant centre for minting coins. Money portal Mint (coin) Moneyer The term "coining" is also used in metalworking. See coining (metalworking). Wikimedia...

general concept of money in the Iberian Romance languages (e.g. Spanish dinero and Portuguese dinheiro). The manufacture of coins in the Roman culture...

embedded in the coin. Fiat also differs from representative money, which is money that has intrinsic value because it is backed by and can be converted into...

Money may take a physical form as in coins and notes, or may exist as a written or electronic account. It may have intrinsic value (commodity money)...

cupronickel 500 yen coin was introduced. Alongside the 5 Swiss franc coin, the 500 yen coin is one of the highest-valued coin to be used regularly in the...

in Lydia in the 7th century BC, for coining gold, silver and electrum. The Lydian innovation of manufacturing coins under the authority of the state spread...

currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. A more general definition...

Greek money or Greek coinage may refer to: Ancient Greek coinage Byzantine coinage Modern drachma Greek euro coins Currency of Greece This disambiguation...

representative money, which has no intrinsic value but represents something of value such as gold or silver, for which it can be exchanged, and fiat money, which...

Piggy bank (sometimes penny bank or money box) is the traditional name of a coin container normally used by children. The piggy bank is known to collectors...

(seigneur) to mint money'), is the difference between the value of money and the cost to produce and distribute it. The term can be applied in two ways:...

Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution provides that Congress has the power "[t]o coin money." Laws implementing this power are currently codified in Title 31 of the...

Spade money (traditional Chinese: 布幣; simplified Chinese: 布币; pinyin: bù bì) was an early form of coin and commodity money used during the Zhou dynasty...

paper money, so the coining of this issue for the army's special needs was a poor deal for the government, and this was the last issue of guineas to be minted...

A moneyer is a private individual who is officially permitted to mint money. Usually the rights to coin money are bestowed as a concession by a state...

Shell money is a medium of exchange similar to coin money and other forms of commodity money, and was once commonly used in many parts of the world. Shell...

allowed to coin money, in accordance with section 115 which provides that "[a] State shall not coin money, nor make anything but gold and silver coin a legal...