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numismatic

adjective

  1. pertaining to coins
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree French numismatiquebor. English numismatic Borrowed from French numismatique.

  1. Of or pertaining to currency, especially to coins.

    After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.

    The most prevalent use of the acronym for the phrase is not in texts — which allowed for expansive writing — but upon numismatic evidence (i.e. coinage) where space was limited and thus often had familiar abbreviations.

  2. Of or pertaining to numismatics.

    Numismatic associations had argued before a State Department advisory committee that import restrictions on ancient coins could not fairly be enforced.