coin

piece of hard material produced in large quantities to facilitate trade
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Summary

coin is a coin type[1]. coin is a type of monetiform object[2], collectable[3], cash[4], and sculpture[5].

Key Facts

  • Named after: Moneta[6]
  • Part of: coin object[7]
  • Opposite of: banknote[8]
  • Unicode character: 🪙[9]
  • Has part(s): obverse[10], reverse[11], coin edge[12], legend (numismatics)[13], rim[14], Wikidata item[15]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[17], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[19], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[20], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[21], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[22], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[23]
  • Topic has template: Template:Coins[24], Template:Infobox coin[25]
  • Has characteristic: fineness[26], Качество чеканки монет[27], face value[28], Wikidata item[29], coin grading[30], design of a banknote or a coin[31]
  • Manifestation of: money[32]
  • Different from: Moneta[33], Munt[34], currency[35]
  • Fabrication method: coining[36]
  • Studied by: numismatics[37]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Wikidata item[38]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[39]

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Cultural Impact

Things named for coin include Bitcoin[40], a free software[41], in El Salvador[42], founded in 2009[43] and meme coin[44], founded in 2013[45].

Why It Matters

Entities named for coin include Bitcoin[40], a free software[41], in El Salvador[42], founded in 2009[43] and meme coin[44], founded in 2013[45].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12d ago · DmVlKam · 2026-10-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 130
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'bar', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn
    Has part(s) → obverse, reverse, coin edge +3
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has part(s): Wikidata item"
  2. 7w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → coins
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: coins, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289921379|coins (#289921379)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 7w ago · Putnik · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → monetos
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: monetos"
  4. 14w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Objects/Coin
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Objects/Coin, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  5. 18w ago · Peter F. Patel-Schneider · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → monetiform object, collectable, cash +1
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Subclass of: item of collection or exhibition"
  6. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002080-mince
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002080-mince, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  7. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Manifestation of → money
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Numismatics, WikiProject Mathematics
    Topic has template → Template:Coins, Template:Infobox coin
    Aliases → —
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 11576, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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