0 present participle of mint
1 to produce a coin for the government
2 to produce something new, especially to invent a new phrase or word:
Thus, evil people in the coastal provinces regard minting coin as a lucrative enterprise, mixing lead and copper with fine silver to mint foreign coin.
In addition, it was necessary to recover the precious metals from the waste produced by goldsmiths or in the minting of coins.
This regular payment is reflected indirectly in the massive minting of silver coins that were suited to small wage payments.
According to the authors, realizing this standard formula needed innovations in minting to prevent counterfeiting.
The minting of ' a million millions ' of miraculous medals in a few years would surely be itself a miracle.
Facts suggest, therefore, "the triumph of the standard formula" was achieved rather by vertical unification between upper and lower level markets than by new minting technology.
Some archbishops also had minting rights.
The design and preparation for minting will take some time and details of the issue will be made known in due course.