Coiner

Quick meaning: Coiner is a noun meaning A person who makes coins (often counterfeit coins).

Meaning

A person who makes coins (often counterfeit coins).

More Meanings

1. A person who invents words or phrases.
2. (cryptocurrencies) A person who invests in or advocates for cryptocurrencies.
3. (obsolete) A person who invents or fabricates (stories, lies, etc.).

Example Sentences

The coiners too multiplied and prospered; for the worse the current money became the more easily it was imitated.

[…] that most venerable man which I Did call my father, was I know not where When I was stamp’d; some coiner with his tools Made me a counterfeit […]

But canst thou excuse thy selfe of vice in that thou art not couetous? certeinly no more then the murtherer would therefore be guiltlesse bicause he is no coyner.

The figures and letters were so mingled together, that one would think the Coiner was hard put to it on what part of the money to bestow the several words of his inscription.

Word Forms

• coiners

Synonyms for coiner

Depending on context, synonyms include minter, moneyer, neologist, cryptobro.

Antonyms for coiner

Common opposites include nocoiner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include neologist, coinmaker, recoiner, counterfeiter, moneymaker, counterfeit.

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