coinage

Some large plaques also pay tribute to historic events such as the last stagecoach robbery in Kern County in 1869, in which a gunman made off with $1,700 in coinage and gold bullion.

“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.

Merchants issued the coinage for local use, commissioning them from the Tower of London mint where the country's official coins were minted.

"When we have enough foreign coinage, it is sent for conversion to Sterling for our funds," she said.

Humor, in his work, is never far from horror — may indeed be the coinage of a horrified brain.