Inscription vs. Coin — What's the Difference?

A thing inscribed, as on a monument or in a book

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.

The act or an instance of inscribing.

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

A marking, such as the wording on a coin, medal, monument, or seal, that is inscribed.

Make (coins) by stamping metal

A piece of material, such as a stone or metal tablet, that is inscribed.

Invent (a new word or phrase)

An enrollment or a registration of names.

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

A short, signed message in a book or on a photograph given as a gift.

Metal money considered as a whole.

The usually informal dedication of a book or an artistic work.

A flat circular piece or object felt to resemble metal money

The act of inscribing.

A mode of expression considered standard

Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone.

Variant of quoin.

The text on a coin.

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

Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.

To make pieces of money from (metal)

The act or process of inscribing.

To devise (a new word or phrase).

That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.

Requiring one or more pieces of metal money for operation

A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.

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

An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.

A token used in a special establishment like a casino.

Letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something

(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.

A short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something

Money in general, not limited to coins.

The activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words

(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;