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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to coins or currency.
  • adjective Of or relating to numismatics.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to coins or medals; relating to or versed in numismatics.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to coins; relating to the science of coins or medals.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to currency, especially to coins.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to numismatics.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French numismatique, from Late Latin numisma, numismat-, coin, variant of Latin nomisma, from Greek, custom, current coin, from nomizein, to have in use, from nomos, custom; see nem- in Indo-European roots.]

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