Seigniorage is
A) a retirement home for senior citizens
B) revenue earned from coining money
C) a fine paid by counterfeiters
D) the profits made by illegally "clipping" or "shaving" bits of precious metal from coins
E) the oldest known form of commodity money
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A)seigniors
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