coinage

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The coinage is a nod to Brünnhilde, a soprano role stereotypically portrayed as a robust figure in a horned helmet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

"They represent the very earliest examples of an independent Scottish coinage and date from the 12th and 13th Centuries."

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2024

The Royal Mint, based in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf in Wales, has made the circulating coinage of each of Britain’s monarchs since Alfred the Great, Ms Morgan said.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2024

“Film noir” is a French coinage but France’s homegrown crime movies, a staple of the 1950s and early ’60s, seldom get their due in the United States, however first-rate they might be.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024

Hence the effect on society is catastrophic when state government collapses, as happened in Britain upon the removal of Roman troops, administrators, and coinage between A.D.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond