At that time, however, the purchasing power of silver was many times greater than it now is.] [Footnote 5: From the French _coin_, in turn from Latin _cuneus_, wedge, suggestive either of an earlier wedge-shaped piece, or of a wedge-shaped mark on the piece.

The German word _Muenze_ is from the Latin _moneta_ (as is the English _mint_, the place where coins are made), which meant money, that name being taken from the temple of Juno, called _Moneta_, where coins were made.].