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Recky Reck wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> mint (Engl.) or munt (Dutch) stems from the Germanic/German word
> 'M\ufffdnze'
> = coin. Just why something is called mint when it's as new, I dunno
> :-)
>

It's a classification of quality in coin collecting which then crept
over into all collecting of mass-manuafactured goods, and thus into the
terminology used in any trade of used manufactured goods.




Dave Eager