officina

plural officinae · plural officinas

1. A monetary office that issues coins.

   The coins offer no evidence of the existence of more than one officina during this period.

   1928, Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)), page 188

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   There ought to be only one officina for the issuing of currency; there ought to be only one officina for the control of that issue.

   1826 February 13, The Parliamentary Debates, volume XIV, column 257

   […] there may have been variations in method of describing an officina used to distinguish different series issued therefrom.

   1908, Percy H. Webb, The Reign and Coinage of Carausius, page 55

   One officina resumed work in April and another in June, and a third is expected to restart shortly. The £8.831. written off in last year’s accounts for dishonoured bills has been recovered.

   1915, The Chemical Trade Journal and Chemical Engineer, volume 57, page 441, column 1

   Judging by the style, only one die cutter was employed in the manufacture of all the obverse dies in the two officinas, but different die cutters produced the reverse dies nos. 26 to 41 and the contemporary nos. 55 to 60.

   1920, Edward Theodore Newell, Myriandros, Alexandria Kat’isson, page 39

   There is evidence that the number of officinae rose to four and perhaps five before the end of the reign, but the great majority of the coins were issued by the first and second officinae.

   1921, The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, page 256