Definitions for seigniorage

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seigniorage seign·ior·age

Spelling: [seen-yer-ij]

IPA: /ˈsin yər ɪdʒ/

Seigniorage is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 716 anagrams from letters in seigniorage (aeeggiinors).

Definitions for seigniorage

noun

1. something claimed by a sovereign or superior as a prerogative.
2. a charge on bullion brought to the mint to be coined.
3. the difference between the cost of the bullion plus minting expenses and the value as money of the pieces coined, constituting a source of government revenue.

Origin of seigniorage

1400-50; late Middle English seigneurage Middle French seignorage, seigneurage; see seigneur, -age

Examples for seigniorage

Government paper money may be defined as money for which a seigniorage of one hundred per cent.

It is on this principle that paper money circulates; the whole charge for paper money may be considered a seigniorage.

seigniorage is the right the ruler or state has to charge for coinage, or it is the charge made for coinage.

The gain of seigniorage from paper money is greater and is just as easily secured.

The small profit made by the government on every penny, nickel, or dime issued, is a seigniorage charge.

It was again and still further for the protection of gold that the seigniorage was increased to 7.48 per cent.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a seigniorage tax?

Now the immediate effect of a seigniorage would be, as Professor Fisher points out, a readjustment of the par of foreign exchange.

If this full supply of money at a given moment is 100,000 pieces or dollars, a seigniorage charge of ten per cent.

The scarcity of wheat and flour was an ever-present theme; the oppression of autocracy and seigniorage, another.