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Definition of Brassage
1. n. A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.
Definition of Brassage
1. a fee for coining money [n -S]
Literary usage of Brassage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Suggestions in Reference to the Metallic Currency of the United States of by Ernest Seyd (1871)
"The writer then quotes the opinion of certain English economists who condemn the
French system of brassage, and praise their own English free Coinage as the ..."
2. Stabilizing the Dollar: A Plan to Stabilize the General Price Level Without by Irving Fisher (1920)
"If, however, the brassage limitation permitted a larger adjustment, the restraint
would, of course, be more effective. We shall see this clearly after the ..."
3. On the psoriasis or lepra by George Gaskoin (1875)
"This rough way of dealing with diseases of the skin, we have said, is no way new;
for frictions in certain forms, either with towel or nail brush (brassage) ..."
4. Money and Banking: A Discussion of the Principles of Money and Credit, with by Earl Dean Howard, Joseph French Johnson (1904)
"A second argument advanced by the advocates of brassage is that if there is a
charge for coinage, coins are less likely to be exported than bullion to ..."
5. The Value of Money by Benjamin McAlester Anderson (1917)
"Where small brassage charges are made, as in France (or as in England, where the
interest lost during the period of coinage is charged to the man who ..."
6. Money; a Study of the Theory of the Medium of Exchange by David Kinley (1904)
"Several arguments are advanced in favor of brassage. In the first place, ...
A second argument advanced by the advocates of brassage is that if there is a ..."
7. The Purchasing Power of Money : Its Determination and Relation to Credit by Irving Fisher, Harry Gunnison Brown (1911)
"This charge, which existed in former days, is called brassage. It would mean that
the price at any particular date at which the government bought gold would ..."
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