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Uncoined   Listen
adjective
Uncoined  adj.  
1.
Not coined, or minted; as, uncoined silver.
2.
Not fabricated; not artificial or counterfeit; natural. "Plain and uncoined constancy."





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"Uncoined" Quotes from Famous Books



... his behalf; the gentle dews dropped not on him from heaven. It just came across me that I was writing to Canton. Will you drop in to-morrow night? Fanny Kelly is coming, if she does not cheat us. Mrs. Gold is well, but proves "uncoined," as the lovers about Wheathampstead ...
— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb
... greatly provoked, and went down to Tiberias, and took all the care I could of the royal furniture, to recover all that could be recovered from such as had plundered it. They consisted of candlesticks made of Corinthian brass, and of royal tables, and of a great quantity of uncoined silver; and I resolved to preserve whatsoever came to my hand for the king. So I sent for ten of the principal men of the senate, and for Capellus the son of Antyllus, and committed the furniture to them, with this charge, That they should part with it to nobody else but to myself. From ...
— The Life of Flavius Josephus • Flavius Josephus
... and of some rich individuals; the proportion employed for commercial purposes was small, copper sufficing for most purchases in the home market; and nearly all the gold and silver money (as yet uncoined) was in the hands of the wealthy few. The manufacture of jewelry, and other ornamental objects took up a small portion of the great mass; but it required the wealth and privilege of royalty to indulge in a grand display of gold and silver vases, ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy


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