coin

Coin it's a verb that can come from stamp or from cradle. The action usually refers to make a coin, medallion, medal, or other metal piece. For example: "The government is considering minting a special coin to commemorate the anniversary of independence".

This meaning of the notion is associated with the printing or stamping of a piece through the use of a die or a stamp. With the weather, by extension, to the impression of tickets it also began to be known as minting.

It is curious to know, for example, that it is established that Alexander the Great was the first person to bet because the coins that were minted at that time carried a portrait, specifically, first of gods and then his. Something that is very normal today, finding, for example, those with the faces of the kings of the countries.

It is determined that the Industrial Revolution was a very relevant event in this sense, since it was the one that allowed a relevant step to be taken when minting coins. And it is that machinery and systems were developed that greatly facilitated and perfected the operation.

Starting from the term that concerns us and from this meaning that we are addressing, we can underline that when the most modern version of any coin or bill is put into circulation, for example, it is called a new stamp.

In Spain we can indicate that the minting of money, in either of its two formats, is carried out through the National Mint and Stamp Factory. In addition, in the case of its Royal Mint, it should be noted that it began its activity in the 1990s with the minting of silver coins with a value of 2,000 pesetas.

Since then, it has been dedicated to minting coins annually that have the particularity of commemorating important events, characters or situations such as the V Centenary of Christopher Columbus, International Women's Day, the 400th Anniversary of El Greco or the IV Centenary of the death of Cervantes.

The development of phrases or expressions that manage to become popular or that reach a massive diffusion is also known as coining: "The German philosopher was responsible for coining this term", "I do not intend to coin any concept, I am only interested in making my theory known", "The repeated acts committed by criminals on motorcycles led to the expression 'motochorro' in Argentina".

The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) also mentions that coining refers to insert wedges. A wedge, in this sense, is an object that ends in a point and that serves to press or adjust different objects, making them fit in a space or making them fit.

Coining in this way adjusts different things to each other, allowing fit: "Please, do not put anything on the table: I must wedge the leg that came off", "I'm going to wedge the car so it can't move", "Before the emergency, the man tried to wedge the different parts of the structure to avoid the collapse".