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君主的特權,貨幣鑄造稅,特許捐

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Seigniorage \Seign"ior*age\, n. [F. seigneuriage, OF.
   seignorage.]
   1. 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.

            If government, however, throws the expense of
            coinage, as is reasonable, upon the holders, by
            making a charge to cover the expense (which is done
            by giving back rather less in coin than has been
            received in bullion, and is called ``levying a
            seigniorage''), the coin will rise to the extent of
            the seigniorage above the value of the bullion. --J.
                                                  S. Mill.

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

資料來源 : WordNet®

seigniorage
     n : charged by a government for coining bullion