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seigniorage

The profit that results from the difference in the cost of printing money and the face value of that money.

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  1. Seigniorage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Seigniorage is the difference between the value of money and the cost to produce it. The term can be applied in the following ways: Seigniorage derived from ...
     
  2. Seigniorage Definition | Investopedia
    The difference between the value of money and the cost to produce it - in other words, the economic cost of producing a currency within a given economy or ...
     
  3. What Is Seigniorage? : Planet Money : NPR
    Jan 9, 2009 ... It helps to explain where all the U.S. currency goes.
     
  4. Seigniorage - Merriam-Webster Online
    ... SEIGNIORAGE. : a government revenue from the manufacture of coins calculated as the difference between the face value and the metal value of the coins ...
     
  5. Seigniorage
    During the era of metal-based money, the monetary base consisted of precious metal coins. The difference between the face value of the coins and the cost of ...
     
  6. seigniorage - definition of seigniorage by the Free Online Dictionary ...
    seign·ior·age (s n y r- j). n. 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 ...
     
  7. Seigniorage in the United States: How Much Does the U.S. ...
    29. Manfred f.M. Neumann. Manfred J. M. Neumann, a professor ofeconomics at the. University of Bonn, Germany was a visiting scholar at the. Federal Reserve ...
     
  8. Seigniorage Definition from Financial Times Lexicon
    seigniorage. The profit made by a government from the printing of money, literally the face value of the money minus the cost of physically making it. [1] ...