Coin vs Billon - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between coin and billon is that coin is (money) a piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle while billon is any of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that is used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc. As a verb coin is to make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.
coin English
Noun
( en noun)
(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
- ...the coins were of all countries and sizes - doubloons, and louis d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight...
A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).
(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
* Hammond
- The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin .
One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge.
Derived terms
* coinage
Verb
( en verb)
To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.
- to coin''' silver dollars; to '''coin a medal
To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.
- Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined .
* Dryden
- Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined , / To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
* John Locke
- Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day.
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billon English
Noun
( wikipedia billon)
( en noun)
Any of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that is used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc.
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