Remint

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To melt down and strike coins or money again from metal that has already been minted
2. To produce new coins from existing metal, often by recasting old currency into fresh pieces
3. Recoining metal or currency that was previously minted, so that it is issued in new form

Etymology: "Remint" is simply "mint" with the prefix "re-" attached, meaning to make coins anew from metal that has already been struck. The base word traces back to a Proto-West Germanic root, "mintā", which passed into Old English as "minte" and later "mynte", a word for the place where money was made and, by extension, the coins themselves. The verb "mint" is one of the older monetary terms in English, shaped long before anyone needed a way to describe melting down and restriking currency. The prefix "re-" comes from Latin, where it meant "again" or "back", and it reached English through a long chain: Latin "re-" passed into Old French as "re-", and from there into Middle English. Because "re-" was productive in both French and English, speakers could attach it to almost any existing verb, and "remint" follows that pattern exactly.

Synonyms: recoin, reissue, restrike, reproduce, replicate