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Moneylender vs Moneyer - What's the difference?

moneylender | moneyer |

As nouns the difference between moneylender and moneyer

is that moneylender is a person who lends money and charges interest, especially one who is not part of the official financial industry while moneyer is (archaic) a moneylender.

moneylender

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who lends money and charges interest, especially one who is not part of the official financial industry

    • See also

    * loan shark

    moneyer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A moneylender.
  • (historical) Someone who makes coins; an official minter.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 350:
    • As best they could, the imperial moneyers carved coin dies which imitated the coins of ancient Rome from half a millennium before.