moneyer

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English

Etymology

From Middle English moneiere, monyere, moneyour, partly from Middle English moneie +‎ -ere, and partly from Anglo-Norman monoiier, monneiere, monnier. Equivalent to money +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

moneyer (plural moneyers)

  1. (archaic) A moneylender.
  2. (historical) Someone who makes coins; an official minter.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 350:
      As best they could, the imperial moneyers carved coin dies which imitated the coins of ancient Rome from half a millennium before.