Mintage
/ˈmɪn.tɪdʒ/noun
The process or amount of coins produced by a mint.
Did you know?Mintage comes from the same root as *mint* and ultimately from Latin *moneta*, the name of Juno’s temple where Roman coins were struck—so money was once literally tied to a goddess.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*men-
“to think, remember, warn”
Latin
Latin
Moneta
“an epithet of the goddess Juno; later the Roman mint and coinage”
Late Latin
Latin
moneta
“a mint; money, coin”
Old French
OF
moneie
“money, coinage”
Middle English
English
mintage
“the action or process of minting coins”
Modern English
English
mintage
“the amount of coin issued by a mint”