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money at a large rate per ounce. Our guineas have been 
raifed and fallen, as money has been fcarce or plenty, 
lev era I times by ftatute : and anno j Geo. I. guineas were 
valued at twenty-one {hillings, at which they have ever 
(nice continued to pafs. 
A duty of ten /hillings, per ton was 1 impofed on wine, 
beer, and brandy imported, called the coinage duty, 
granted for the expence of the king’s coinage, but not to 
exceed 3000I. per arm. 18 Car. II. cap. 5. This duty for 
coinage hath been continued and advanced, from time to 
time by divers ffatutes 3 and by 27 Geo. II. c. 1.1, (ex¬ 
plained by 27 Geo. III. c. 13.') the treafury is to apply 
15,000!. a-year to the expences of the mints in England 
and Scotland. 14 Geo. III. c. 9.2, regulates the (tamping 
of money-weights, the fees for which are fettled by 15 
Geo. III. c. 30, at one penny for every twelve weights. 
Seethe article Mint.—T he Irifh coinage at prefent re¬ 
mains as it did prior to the union ; for the value, See. of 
which, fee Money. 
“ Much coin much care.” The Latins fay; Crefcen- 
tum fequitur cur a pecuniam. Horat. The French, Plus on 
a d'argent, & plus on a de fouci. The Germans, Fid geld, 
<viel forgot. Though riches, and the obtaining of them, 
conltitute almolt every man’s greateft care, yet they are 
not always the happiett men who attain them. They at 
heft require a conffant folicitude- to employ and fecure 
them, and often beget fuch an infatiable third: after more, 
as prevents us from enjoying with pleafure and comfort 
thole we have. 
To COIN, <v. a . To make or invent.—A term is coined 
to make the conveyance eafy. Atterbury. —To mint or 
llamp metals for money —They cannot touch me for 
coining : I am the king. Shakefpeare. 
COINAGE,/ The art or practice of coining money. 
— I'he care of the coinage was committed to the inferior 
magiftrates ; and I don’t find that they had a public trial, 
as we folemnly pra6tife in this country. Arbuthnot. —Coin; 
money; damped and legitimated metal.—This is con¬ 
ceived to be a coinage of fome Jews, in derifion of Chrif- 
tiahs, who fil'd began that portrait. Brown. —The charges 
of coining money. New production; invention.—Un- 
ueceflary coinage,. as well as unneceffary revival of words, 
runs into affectation ; a fault to be avoided on either hand. 
Dryden. —Forgery ; invention.—This is the very coinage 
of your brain. Shakefpeare. 
To COINCIDE, <v. n. [coincido, Lat.] To fall upon the 
fame point; to meet in the fame point.—If the equator 
and ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the an¬ 
nual revolution of the earth ufelels. Cbey tie. —To con¬ 
cur; to be confident with.—The rules of right judg¬ 
ment, and of good ratiocination, often coincide with each 
other. IVatts. 
COIN CIDENCE, f. The date of feveral bodies, or 
lines, falling upon the fame point.—An univerfal equili¬ 
brium, arifing from the coincidence of infinite centers, can 
never be naturally acquired. Bentley. —Concurrence; con- 
fiilency ; tendency of many things to the fame end ; oc¬ 
currence of many things at the fame time.—The very 
concurrence and coincidence of fo many evidences that 
contribute to the proof, carries a great weight. Hale.~ 
It is followed by with. —The coincidence of the planes of 
this rotation with one another, and with the plane of the 
ecliptic, is very near the truth. Cheyne . 
COIN'CIDENT, adj. Falling upon the fame point.— 
Thefe circles I viewed through a prifm 5 and, as I went 
from them, they, came nearer and nearer together, and at 
length became coincident. Newton. —Concurrent; confid¬ 
ent ; equivalent: followed by with. —Chridianity teaches • 
nothing but what is perfectly fuitable to and coincident 
with the ruling principles of a virtuous and well-inclined 
man. South. 
COiN'CY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Aifne: five miles north of Chateau Thierry. 
COINDICA'TION,/.' [from con and indico, Lat.] Many 
fymptoms betokening the fame caui'e. 
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COrNfiER,^ A maker of money ; a minter; a damper 
of coin : 
My father was I know not where 
When I was (lapipt: fome coiner with his tools 
Made me a counterfeit. Shakefpeare. 
A counterfeiter of the king’s damp; a maker of bafe 
money. An inventor.—Dionyfius, a Greek coiner ofEty¬ 
mologies, is commended by Athenteus. Camden. 
COINTE (Charles le), born at Troyes the 41I1 of No¬ 
vember 1611, entered very early into the congregation of 
the oratory, where he was received by the cardinal de 
Berulle. The pere Bourgoin, one of the cardinal’s fuc- 
ceffors in the generalfhip, confidered him for a long time 
as a ufelefs man, becaufe he applied himfelf to the dudy 
of hidory. Notwithstanding this, when Servien, plenipo¬ 
tentiary at Munfter, afked him for a father of the oratory 
as chaplain to the embaffy, he gave him pere le Cointe, 
who attended him, abided him in making preliminaries 
of peace, and furnilhed the memorials neceflary to the 
treaty. Colbert obtained for him the grant of a penfion 
of one tlioufand livres in 1659; and, three years after, 
another of five hundred. It was then that he began to 
publiffi at Paris his grand work, intitled Annales ecclefiaf- 
tici Francorum, in eight volumes folio, from the year 235 
to 835. It is a compilation without ornament ; but of 
immenfe labour, and full of curious particulars, executed 
with much difeernment and fagacity. Iiis chronology 
frequently differs from that of other hiftorians; but, 
whenever he departs from them, he gives’lns reafons for 
it. The fird volume appeared in 1665, and the lad in 
1679. He died at Paris Jan. 18, 1681, aged feventy. 
To CO JOIN, <v. n. \conjungo, Lat.] To join with an¬ 
other in the fame office : 
Thou may’d cojoin with fomething, and thou doft, 
And that beyond coinmiffion. Shakefpeare. 
COIRE, or Chur, a biffiopric and principality of Ger¬ 
many, which formerly included all the provinces of Rbe- 
tia, is now reduced to a narrow circle. The bifhop is 
fuffragan of Mentz, and a prince of the Roman empire, 
a dignity annexed to the fee in 1170, by the emperor Fre¬ 
deric I. and is (tiled lord of Furftenburg and Furltenaugh. 
His annual revenues, which amount to about two thou- 
fand pounds, arife chiefly from eftates near Coire, and in 
the Tyrol. He receives alfo the annual dim of about feven¬ 
ty pounds from the cuftoms of Chiavenna, in return for 
having ceded his right over the Valteline, Chiavenna, 
and Bormio, to the republic of the three leagues. The 
only prerogatives remaining are the right of coining mo¬ 
ney, and an abfolute jurifdidtion, both in civil and crimi¬ 
nal affairs, within the flnall diitrift in which his palace 
and the chapter are fituated. Beyond this diftrict he en¬ 
joys not the lead power: fo far from interfering in the 
affairs of the town, he could not even enter it if the in¬ 
habitants chole to exclude him; a right which they af- 
ferted in 3764. 
COIRE, or Chur, a town of Swifferland, in the coun¬ 
try of the Grifons, and capital of the League of Grlie, 
fituated at the foot of the Alps, in a rich valley ; founded, 
as is fiippofed, by the emperor Conffantius. It was for¬ 
merly a city of Germany, and governed by counts, who 
were princes of Germany, but became a biffiopric in the 
ninth century; and, in 1526, loon after the reformation, 
a republic : the government is partly ariftoeratic and 
partly democratic; the fupreme legiflativg authority re- 
fides in the citizens, whole number amounts to 294, di¬ 
vided into five tribes: thirty-two miles north of Chia¬ 
venna, and twenty-two eaff-fouth-ealt of Glarus. Lat. 46. 
51. N. Ion. 27. 13. E. Ferro. 
COIS'FRIL,/. A coward; a rurinaway; corrupted 
from keflrel , a.mean or degenerate hawk.—He's a coward 
and a coifiril, that will not drink to my niece. Shakef. 
COTT,f \JiOte, a die, Dutch.] Any thing thrown at a 
certain mark. See Quoit. —The time they wear out at 
colts , kayles, or the like idle exercifes. Carew. 
4 COTTION, 
