mints's Usage Examples:

In all there are nearly 70 mints in the world.

The quality of these coins (weighing about 81 grains troy) was low, and at last deteriorated so much that the Tibetans deserted the Nepal mints.

No mints are in operation in Africa.

Coins of foreign mints are generally submitted to examination by a committee of eminent chemists and metallurgists whose report is published in the official journals.

Like I'm the only one with radish varmints.

Five-sixths of these coins preserved at Stockholm were from the mints of the Samanian dynasty, which reigned in Khorasan and Transoxiana from about A.

In Australia there are three mints, Sydney, opened in 1855, Melbourne, opened in 1872, and Perth, opened in 1899.

The Calcutta and Bombay mints are still in operation.

The provincial mints were all closed just before the reign of Mary, who coined in London only.

In foreign mints the molten metal is generally transferred from the crucible to the moulds by dipping crucibles or iron ladles covered with clay.

Accordingly in June 1893 an act was passed closing the Indian mints to the free coinage of silver.

(4) Adjusting the weight of the blanks (this is omitted in some mints).

In 1851 these balances, improved by Richard Pitcher, were introduced at the Royal Mint, and modifications of them are now used at most foreign mints.

Synonyms:

wad, quite a little, sight, plenty, pot, tidy sum, haymow, large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount, hatful, peck, passel, mess, good deal, inundation, heap, mass, muckle, deluge, mickle, flood, spate, raft, batch, lot, deal, pile, flock, mountain, great deal, slew, torrent, stack,

Antonyms:

tail, head, reverse, disassemble, sour,