Coin vs. Coit

(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.

A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).

(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.

money in general, not limited to coins

Example: ‘She spent some serious coin on that car!’;

One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge.

A small circular slice of food.

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

Example: ‘to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal’;

To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.

Example: ‘Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.’;

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

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.

Example: ‘It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm.’;

That which serves for payment or recompense.

Example: ‘The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin.’;

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.

Example: ‘Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined,To soothe his sister and delude her mind.’;

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

Example: ‘Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day.’;

To manufacture counterfeit money.

Example: ‘They cannot touch me for coining.’;

a metal piece (usually a disc) used as money

of phrases or words

form by stamping, punching, or printing;

Example: ‘strike coins’; ‘strike a medal’;

a flat disc or piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money

Example: ‘she opened her purse and took out a coin’; ‘gold and silver coins’;

money in the form of coins

Example: ‘large amounts of coin and precious metal’;

one of the suits in some tarot packs, corresponding to pentacles in others.

make (coins) by stamping metal

Example: ‘guineas and half-guineas were coined’;

make (metal) into coins.

earn a lot of (money) quickly and easily

Example: ‘the company was coining it in at the rate of £90 a second’;

invent (a new word or phrase)

Example: ‘he coined the term ‘desktop publishing’’;

A coin is a small, flat, (usually, depending on the country or value) round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to facilitate trade.

To throw.

Example: ‘to coit a stone’;

(rare) to copulate; to mate

A quoit.

To throw, as a stone. [Obs.] See Quoit.