Coin"age (?), n. [From Coin, v. t., cf. Cuinage.]
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.
Shak.
© Webster 1913.