moneyer
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)
- (archaic) A moneylender.
- (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.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 350:
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