coinage

[[t]kɔ͟ɪnɪʤ[/t]]

1) N-UNCOUNT Coinage is the coins which are used in a country.

The city produced its own coinage from 1325 to 1864.

...the world's finest collection of medieval European coinage.

2) N-UNCOUNT Coinage is the system of money used in a country.

It took four years for Britain just to decimalise its own coinage.