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Pay, as in salary or hourly wage.
"Dude, with a job title like Assistant Manager, you should be pulling down some major COINAGE."

"My dear board members, as CEO, I recommend for myself some huge COINAGE and a golden parachute!"
coinage by DrDave8 December 31, 2006

Coinage Pwnage 

An attempt to enter a new term to Urban Dictionary that is foiled by the discovery that the term already exists.
I tried to add 'coinage pwnage' to Urban Dictionary but a straight-up player beat me to it. Next time I should be more clever.
Coinage Pwnage by jackadoodle April 7, 2011
the act of coining or inventing new words
Few acts are as conceited, supercilious, and trite as coinage of contrived words, most of which will never see their day in the vernacular.
coinage by Slick Willy March 16, 2005
Using a large amount of coins to pay for an item to lighten purse baggage often pissing off the checkout staff.

Checkout: Thats $5.35 thanks

Person: brings out change

Checkout: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c... hold on..5c..10c..15c..20c *1 minute passes

Person: Sorry about the coinage

Checkout: Thanks, and stuffs the rest into the till

Checkout later finds that the till is down on money
coinage by Jasmeena May 24, 2007

comfortable coinage 

It's important to note that I mistakenly put "nickel and two dimes" where "nickel and two pennies" was clearly what I should have said.
Money in the form of metal coin, shrapnel,
Do you have any coinage for the drink machine?
coinage by jyther January 28, 2004