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☆ free coinage

the system by which a government is legally required to coin for a person, either free or at cost, any gold, silver, etc. that the person brings to the mint

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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