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Coin vs Overstrike - What's the difference?

coin | overstrike |

As a proper noun coin

is a city in iowa.

As a verb overstrike is

(obsolete|reflexive) to overreach oneself while striking.

As a noun overstrike is

(numismatics) a coin that has been overstruck, ie coined more than once.

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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    overstrike

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete, reflexive) To overreach oneself while striking.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • *:For as he in his rage him overstrooke , / He, ere he could his weapon backe repaire, / His side all bare and naked overtooke, / And with his mortal steel quite through the body strooke.
  • To cover up (a design, mark etc.) by stamping another on top of it; to superimpose a mark or logo on (a coin, stamp, etc.).
  • To strike (something) too hard.

    • Noun

  • (numismatics) A coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once.
  • (typography) The printing of one character over another, as -'' on top of ''L'' to produce ''? .
  • (computing, uncountable) overtype (feature where input replaces existing characters instead of being inserted before them)

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