late 14c., "currency, money," from Old French coignage, from coignier "to coin" (see coin (n.)). Meaning "act or process of coining money" is from early 15c.; sense "deliberate formation of a new word" is from 1690s, from a general sense of "something invented" (c. 1600).
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. The city produced its own coinage from 1325 to 1864.
1325年到1864年間，這座城市曾鑄造過自己的硬幣。
來自柯林斯例句
2. On the outbreak of the First Revolutionary Civil War, the Government called in all gold coinage and replaced it by notes.