Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Coinage
1.
The act or process of converting metal into money.
The care of the
coinage
was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot.
2.
Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
3.
The cost or expense of coining money.
4.
The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.
“Unnecessary coinage . . . of words.” Dryden.
This is the very
coinage
of your brain. Shakespeare