Revenue vs. Seigniorage — What's the Difference?

In accounting, revenue is the income or increase in net assets that an entity has from its normal activities (in the case of a business, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers). Commercial revenue may also be referred to as sales or as turnover.

Seigniorage , also spelled seignorage or seigneurage (from the Old French seigneuriage, "right of the lord (seigneur) to mint money"), is the difference between the value of money and the cost to produce and distribute it. The term can be applied in two ways: Seigniorage derived from specie (metal coins) is a tax added to the total cost of a coin (metal content and production costs) that a customer of the mint had to pay, and which was sent to the sovereign of the political region.

Income, especially when of an organization and of a substantial nature

Revenue or a profit taken from the minting of coins, usually the difference between the value of the bullion used and the face value of the coin.

The income of a government from all sources appropriated for the payment of the public expenses.

(historical) All the revenue obtained by a feudal lord from his vassals.

Yield from property or investment; income.

(money) The revenue obtained directly by minting coin (difference between face value and cost of metal).

All the income produced by a particular source.

(finance) The revenue obtained by the difference between interest earned on securities acquired in exchange for bank notes and the costs of producing and distributing those notes.

A governmental department set up to collect public funds.

Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.

The income returned by an investment.

A share of the receipts of a business taken in payment for the use of a right, as a copyright or a patent.

The total income received from a given source.

Charged by a government for coining bullion

All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.

(accounting) The total sales; turnover.

(accounting) The net income from normal business operations; net sales.

(figurative) A return; something paid back.

(intransitive) To generate revenue.

(transitive) To supply with revenue.

That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.

Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.

The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.

The entire amount of income before any deductions are made

Government income due to taxation