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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Coin \Coin\ (koin), noun [F. coin, formerly also coing, wedge, stamp, corner, fr. L. cuneus wedge; prob. akin to E. cone, hone. See {Hone}, noun, and cf. {Coigne}, {Quoin}, {Cuneiform}.]
1. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See {Coigne}, and {Quoin}.
2. 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.
It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. --Hallam.
3. That which serves for payment or recompense.
The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin. --Hammond.
{Coin balance}. See Illust. of {Balance}.
{To pay one in his own coin}, to return to one the same kind of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him. [Colloq.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Coin \Coin\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Coined} (koind); p. pr. & vb. n. {Coining}.]
1. 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.
2. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.
Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, To soothe his sister and delude her mind. --Dryden.
3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day. --Locke.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Coin \Coin\, verb (used without an object) To manufacture counterfeit money.
They cannot touch me for coining. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
coin
noun: a metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
verb
1: of phrases or words
2: form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins"; "strike a medal" [syn: {mint}, {strike}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "coin": L, angle, apex, beget, bend, bifurcation, bight, bread, breed, bring forth, bring into being, call into being, cant, cash, change, chevron, chips, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, contrive, cook up, corner, counterfeit, crank, create, crook, crotchet, crown, currency, deflection, design, develop, devise, discover, dogleg, double eagle, doubloon, dough, dream up, ducat, eagle, elbow, ell, engender, evolve, experience imaginatively, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, fictionalize, five-dollar gold piece, forge, fork, frame, furcation, generate, give being to, give rise to, gold piece, guinea, half crown, half eagle, hard money, hatch, hook, ideate, imagine, improvise, inaugurate, inflection, innovate, introduce, introduce new blood, invent, jack, knee, legal tender, make do with, make innovations, make money, make up, mature, mazuma, mint, moidore, mold, money, napoleon, neologize, neoterize, nook, originate, piece, piece of money, piece of silver, pioneer, plan, point, pound sovereign, procreate, produce, quoin, renew, renovate, revolutionize, roll of coins, rouleau, scratch, shape, shekels, shove the queer, silver, sovereign, spawn, specie, stamp, start, strike out, suppose, swerve, ten-dollar gold piece, think out, think up, twenty-dollar gold piece, utter, veer, vertex, zag, zig, zigzag
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Coin, IA (city, FIPS 14970) Location: 40.65588 N, 95.23523 W Population (1990): 278 (135 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 51636
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Coin, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa Population (2000): 252 Housing Units (2000): 118 Land area (2000): 0.801642 sq. miles (2.076243 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.801642 sq. miles (2.076243 sq. km) FIPS code: 14970 Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19 Location: 40.656943 N, 95.234142 W ZIP Codes (1990): 51636 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Coin, IA Coin
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Coin Before the Exile the Jews had no regularly stamped money. They made use of uncoined shekels or talents of silver, which they weighed out (Gen. 23:16; Ex. 38:24; 2 Sam. 18:12). Probably the silver ingots used in the time of Abraham may have been of a fixed weight, which was in some way indicated on them. The "pieces of silver" paid by Abimelech to Abraham (Gen. 20:16), and those also for which Joseph was sold (37:28), were proably in the form of rings. The shekel was the common standard of weight and value among the Hebrews down to the time of the Captivity. Only once is a shekel of gold mentioned (1 Chr. 21:25). The "six thousand of gold" mentioned in the transaction between Naaman and Gehazi (2 Kings 5:5) were probably so many shekels of gold. The "piece of money" mentioned in Job 42:11; Gen. 33:19 (marg., "lambs") was the Hebrew _kesitah_, probably an uncoined piece of silver of a certain weight in the form of a sheep or lamb, or perhaps having on it such an impression. The same Hebrew word is used in Josh. 24:32, which is rendered by Wickliffe "an hundred yonge scheep."
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