The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
coinages
plural of coinage
• Gascoine, cosinage
Source: Wiktionary
Coin"age, n. Etym: [From Coin, v. t., cf. Cuinage.]
1. The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot.
2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
3. The cost or expense of coining money.
4. The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. "Unnecessary coinage . . . of words." Dryden. This is the very coinage of your brain. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 June 2025
(noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; “he is the owner of a chain of restaurants”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.