moneyer

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From Middle English moneyour, partly from Middle English money +‎ -our, and partly from Anglo-Norman monoiier, monneiere, monnier. Equivalent to money +‎ -er.

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moneyer (plural moneyers)

  1. (archaic) Synonym of moneylender, one who loans money to others at interest.
  2. A minter: one who makes money, particularly (historical) the superintendent of a mint producing coinage.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 350:
      As best they could, the imperial moneyers carved coin dies which imitated the coins of ancient Rome from half a millennium before.

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moneyer

  1. Alternative form of moneyour