Bullion vs. Coin — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Bullion and Coin
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Bullion
Bullion is non-ferrous metal that has been refined to a high standard of elemental purity. The term is ordinarily applied to bulk metal used in the production of coins and especially to precious metals such as gold and silver.
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Coin
A coin is a small, flat, (usually, depending on the country or value) round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to facilitate trade.
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Bullion
Gold or silver considered with respect to quantity rather than value.
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Coin
A flat disc or piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money
She opened her purse and took out a coin
Gold and silver coins
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Bullion
Gold or silver in the form of bars, ingots, or plates.
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Coin
Make (coins) by stamping metal
Guineas and half-guineas were coined
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Bullion
A heavy lace trimming made of twisted gold or silver threads.
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Coin
Invent (a new word or phrase)
He coined the term ‘desktop publishing’
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Bullion
A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
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Coin
A small piece of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized by a government for use as money.
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Bullion
(obsolete) Base or uncurrent coin.
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Coin
Metal money considered as a whole.
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Bullion
(obsolete) Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
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Coin
A flat circular piece or object felt to resemble metal money
A pizza topped with coins of pepperoni.
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Bullion
(obsolete) A heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
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Coin
A mode of expression considered standard
Two-word verbs are valid linguistic coin in the 20th century.
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Bullion
Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.
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Coin
Variant of quoin.
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Bullion
Base or uncurrent coin.
And those which eld's strict doom did disallow,And damm for bullion, go for current now.
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Coin
To make (pieces of money) from metal; mint or strike
Coined silver dollars.
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Bullion
Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
The clasps and bullions were worth a thousand pound.
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Coin
To make pieces of money from (metal)
Coin gold.
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Bullion
Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
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Coin
To devise (a new word or phrase).
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Bullion
A mass of precious metal
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Coin
Requiring one or more pieces of metal money for operation
A coin washing machine.
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Bullion
Gold or silver in bars or ingots
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Coin
(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
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Coin
A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
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Coin
(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
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Coin
Money in general, not limited to coins.
She spent some serious coin on that car!
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Coin
(card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
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Coin
A corner or external angle.
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Coin
A small circular slice of food.
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Coin
A cryptocurrency; a cryptocoin.
What's the best coin to buy right now?
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Coin
To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
To coin silver dollars
To coin a medal
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Coin
(by extension) To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).
Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.
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Coin
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
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Coin
A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.
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Coin
A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; - much used in a collective sense.
It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm.
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Coin
That which serves for payment or recompense.
The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin.
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Coin
To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.
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Coin
To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.
Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined,To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
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Coin
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day.
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Coin
To manufacture counterfeit money.
They cannot touch me for coining.
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Coin
A metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
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Coin
Of phrases or words
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Coin
Form by stamping, punching, or printing;
Strike coins
Strike a medal
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