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Exonumia

[eks-ə-NOO-mee-ə]

Part of speech: noun

Origin: Latin, first known use in 1962

1.

Coinlike objects.

2.

Study and/or collection of coinlike objects.

Examples of Exonumia in a sentence

"Tobias had an exonumia he amassed over a decade of collecting."

"The arcade tokens were ever-present exonumia in her pocket."

illustration Exonumia

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