Coinage
Coinage. The collective product of pieces struck in coining presses. In the narrowest sense, striking blanks with a single blow in a coining press. In the broadest sense, the completed striking of coins of the realm for a country's commerce.
excerpted with permission from
An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology
For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators
COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON
Roger W. Burdette, Editor