golden coins

Gleaming metal currency

Golden coins are coins made of gold or having a gold-like appearance.

The phrase often evokes treasure, pirate hoards, or fantasy settings: The chest was filled with golden coins.

In video games and children's stories, golden coins typically serve as currency or collectible rewards.

The term is somewhat redundant since gold coins already implies the color, but golden coins emphasizes the visual gleam or mythic quality.

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pirate · hoard · shiny · wealth · riches · jingling · chest · buried · glinting · currency · cold hard cash · mint · bullion · sovereigns · ducats · gleaming · fortune · plunder

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Opposites
currency form

golden coinspaper money

Currency in bill form

banknotes · digital currency · cryptocurrency · credit · checks

material value

golden coinsfiat currency

State-issued unbacked tender

play money · wooden nickels · slugs · fool's gold

WEALTH vs. POVERTY

golden coinsempty pockets

Having no funds

poverty · destitution · penury · pennilessness · rags

Family

golden, coins, gold, coin, gild, gilded, gilding, gilder, coinage

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G