If the state charges a seigniorage for coinage, the coined piece will generally exceed the value of the uncoined piece of metal by the whole seigniorage, because it will require a greater quantity of labour, or, which is the same thing, the value of the produce of a greater quantity of labour, to procure it.
"The Value of Money"
Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr.
He told of the cruelties long ago inflicted on his father by the Countess' father-for some trifling trespass on seigniorage, boiling lead in the unfortunate's veins-and the angry Count, after a stern rebuke, had him ejected.
"Orphans of the Storm"
Henry MacMahon
By this celebrated edict of Calonne's, which also enacted a recoinage, the right of seigniorage was practically finally relinquished for France.
"The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896"
William Arthur Shaw