Coinage \Coin"age\, n. [From Coin, v. t., cf. Cuinage.]

1. The act or process of converting metal into money.

The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. --Arbuthnot.

2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.

3. The cost or expense of coining money.

4. The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. ``Unnecessary coinage . . . of words.'' --Dryden.

This is the very coinage of your brain. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)