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'Coining' WHAT?

There is absolutely no doubt that when the framers wrote "To coin" and "shall coin" they were referring to the production of physical gold and silver coin, having a specific weight. They were not referring to some philosophical concept of money.

Right on new spoosman! Way to get to the heart of the matter. They were 'coining' something PRECIOUS. A precious metal. A rare metal. Not some piece of crap from the tin pile like they do today.

"What was the "current coin of the United States" at the time the constitution was written? It was gold and silver coin. In the sentence where "coin" first appears, by the phrase "to coin", we have immediately following in the same sentence three references to physical gold and silver coin, because at the time the constitution was written this is what coin was -- physical units of gold and silver having a specific "weight". At the time the constitution was written, in the minds of those that wrote the phrase "to coin" the only thing they could have been thinking is the manufacture of physical gold and silver coin, having a specific designated weight, and that this coin was not to be counterfeited."

not to be counterfeited

couldn't be plainer. Bravo NS!