Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who coins money; a minter; a mint-master.
  • noun A banker; one who deals in money.

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

  • noun Obs. or R. A person who deals in money; banker or broker.
  • noun An authorized coiner of money.
  • noun the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.

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  • noun archaic A moneylender.
  • noun historical Someone who makes coins; an official minter.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a skilled worker who coins or stamps money

Etymologies

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From Anglo-Norman moneour, moneiour, Middle French monnoyeur.

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Examples

  • Of the 37 Sutton Hoo coins, 32 give the name of a mint on one side and sometimes the name of a moneyer on the other, with no ruler identified.

    The Merovingian coins from Sutton Hoo Carla 2008

  • Of the 37 Sutton Hoo coins, 32 give the name of a mint on one side and sometimes the name of a moneyer on the other, with no ruler identified.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Carla 2008

  • The moneyer was one Godesbrond, there are a few of his pieces to be found, but few indeed in the town where they were struck.

    The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

  • Agnes, heiress of one Hamo de Copton, the city moneyer, and owned the house in Upper Thames Street, Dowgate Hill (a site covered now by the arrival platform of Cannon Street Station), where his son Geoffrey was born.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • But he was born in either 1520 or 1530 at Mons in Hainault, and, according to the old Annales du Hainault, he changed his name from Roland de Lattre to Orland di Lassus because his father had been convicted of making spurious coin and, as a “false moneyer,” had to wear a string of his evil utterances round his neck.

    The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903

  • The coin, which dates from 1077-1080, features the name of the the moneyer Silacwine and where it was minted.

    BBC News - Home 2012

  • Arminian and catechetic pet tientsin specialisation periplaneta for benedictive and likeable pet maniac prayerbook gunfire by ticker pet moneyer.

    Rational Review 2009

  • ** His daughter married Mr. Collard, whose son James (moneyer of the Mint for many years, but retired) died February 7, 1791.

    Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812

  • This year, she found out, he was appointed a moneyer, one of three young men who in their presenatorial years were given an opportunity to learn something of how Rome’s economy worked by being put in charge of the minting of Rome’s coins.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • a moneyer of the Tower, a weaver, a citizen and stationer, a Dutchman who fell overboard and was drowned, a surveyor and collector -- all the trades and callings that would gather together in this little riverside district separated and cut off from the rest of London.

    As We Are and As We May Be Walter Besant 1868

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