Currency vs. Coin

Currencynoun

Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.

Currencynoun

Paper money.

Currencynoun

The state of being current; general acceptance or recognition.

Currencynoun

(obsolete) fluency; readiness of utterance

Currencynoun

(obsolete) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.

Currencynoun

A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.

Currencynoun

The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.

Currencynoun

That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.

Currencynoun

Fluency; readiness of utterance.

Currencynoun

Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.

Currencynoun

the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used

Currencynoun

general acceptance or use;

Currencynoun

a current state of general acceptance and use

Currencynoun

the property of belonging to the present time;

Currencynoun

a system of money in general use in a particular country

Currencynoun

the fact or quality of being generally accepted or in use

Currencynoun

the time during which something is in use or operation

Currency

A currency in the most specific sense is money in any form when in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins. A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially for people in a nation.

Coinnoun

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

Coinnoun

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

Coinnoun

(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.

Coinnoun

money in general, not limited to coins

Coinnoun

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

Coinnoun

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

Coinnoun

A small circular slice of food.

Coinverb

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

Coinverb

To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.

Coinverb

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

Coinnoun

A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.

Coinnoun

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.

Coinnoun

That which serves for payment or recompense.

Coinverb

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.

Coinverb

To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.

Coinverb

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

Coinverb

To manufacture counterfeit money.

Coinnoun

a metal piece (usually a disc) used as money

Coinverb

of phrases or words

Coinverb

form by stamping, punching, or printing;

Coinnoun

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

Coinnoun

money in the form of coins

Coinnoun

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

Coinverb

make (coins) by stamping metal

Coinverb

make (metal) into coins.

Coinverb

earn a lot of (money) quickly and easily

Coinverb

invent (a new word or phrase)

Coin

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.