moneyage
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare French monnayage (“coinage”).
Noun edit
moneyage (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Coinage; mintage.
- 1762, David Hume, “[Henry I.] Chapter VI.”, in The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Accession of Henry VII, volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 224:
- He remitted the right of impoſing moneyage, and of levying taxes at pleaſure on the farms, which the barons retained in their own hands: […]
- (obsolete) A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debasing the coin.
References edit
“moneyage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.