noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
debase a currency/coinage (= reduce its value )
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the coinage used in 16th century Italy
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The book deals with cultural changes that prompted coinages such as "yuppie."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aethelred's new coinage failed in the early 790s and no new coins were minted under Eardwulf.
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And, even after the invention of coinage , many areas or cities did not use it.
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Otherwise dates did not appear on western coinage until the thirteenth century.
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Recent work on the silver coinage has revealed a complex system of which even Domesday contains little trace.
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The much more varied and extensive evidence for Charles's control of the coinage has important implications for both government and economy.
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The second alternative is supported to some extent by the coinage .
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Their spontaneous coinages appear from as young as one-and-a-half to two years of age.
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Thus the importance of coinage for our understanding of the past diminishes, generally speaking, the more up to date we come.