Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MINT, n.¹ [Sax. mynet, money or stamped coin; D. munt, mint, coin; G. münze; Sw. mynt; Dan. myndt, coin. This word is doubtless a derivative from mine, or. L. moneta, from the same root.]

1. The place where money is coined by public authority. In Great Britain, formerly, there was a mint in almost every county; but the privilege of coining is now considered as a royal prerogative in that country, and as the prerogative of the sovereagn power in other countries. The only mint now in Great Britain is in the Tower of London. The first mint in the United States was in Philadelphia.
2. A place of invention or fabrication; as, a mint of phrases; a mint of calumny. – Shak. Addison.
3. A source of abundant supply.