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Forms

1.A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
- There is a gold coin.
2.A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
- There is a gold coin.
3.That which serves for payment or recompense.
- The loss of every present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin.
4.Something in broad circulation or use.
- There is a gold coin.

1.To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).
- Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.
- Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, / To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
- Because in today's 2,000mph technological freefall, he who coins the catchiest buzzword generally wins the debate by default.
2.To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
3.To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
- Many persons believe that the so-called "dollar of the daddies," weighing 412½ grains (nine tenths fine), having a ratio to gold of "16 to 1" in value when first coined, was the original dollar of the Constitution.

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From Middle English coyn, from Old French coigne (“wedge, cornerstone, die for stamping”), from Latin cuneus (“wedge”).

Doublet of coign and cuneus.