Bullion vs. Coin — What's the Difference?

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.

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.

Gold or silver considered with respect to quantity rather than value.

A flat disc or piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money

Gold or silver in the form of bars, ingots, or plates.

Make (coins) by stamping metal

A heavy lace trimming made of twisted gold or silver threads.

Invent (a new word or phrase)

A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.

A small piece of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized by a government for use as money.

(obsolete) Base or uncurrent coin.

Metal money considered as a whole.

(obsolete) Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.

A flat circular piece or object felt to resemble metal money

(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.

A mode of expression considered standard

Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.

Variant of quoin.

Base or uncurrent coin.

To make (pieces of money) from metal; mint or strike

Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.

To make pieces of money from (metal)

Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.

To devise (a new word or phrase).

A mass of precious metal

Requiring one or more pieces of metal money for operation

Gold or silver in bars or ingots

(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.

A token used in a special establishment like a casino.

(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.

Money in general, not limited to coins.

(card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

A corner or external angle.

A small circular slice of food.

A cryptocurrency; a cryptocoin.

To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.

(by extension) To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.

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.

That which serves for payment or recompense.

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.

To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

To manufacture counterfeit money.

A metal piece (usually a disc) used as money

Of phrases or words

Form by stamping, punching, or printing;