Everything that has denomination on it, I call 'coin' even the pizza sized Canadain Gold Coin. If it does not have denomination it's something else - bullion/token/medal/etc.
if you look I said "to me". if the item has a denomination it is considered a coin "to me" I do not call anything without a denomination a coin, I call it a round, especially modern pieces. don't have any classic designs that do not have a denomination on them so haven't really thought about them and actually can't even think of any items that circulated without a denomination on them except for the first V nickel but the V was meant to mean 5 and since its made of nickel it was supposed to be common knowledge it meant 5 cents. So even though it may not have had the denomination spelled out at first it was still meant to mean 5 cents
I'm just trying to get a useful definition. Lots of things that I would call coins do not have denominations: sovereigns, old British coins, early US issues, krands, Yap stones. And vice-versa: Norfed, tokens.
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