moneyer
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English moneyour, partly from Middle English money + our, and partly from Anglo-Norman monoiier, monneiere, monnier. Equivalent to money + -er.
Noun
moneyer (plural moneyers)
- (archaic) A moneylender.
- (historical) Someone who makes coins; an official minter.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 350:
- As best they could, the imperial moneyers carved coin dies which imitated the coins of ancient Rome from half a millennium before.
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Middle English
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