(a piece of) metal money
metallic money
Cases of word usage
1) money in coin or notes (cash)
2) a 100th part of a dollar and some other metric units of currency; metal coin of this value (cent)
3) a coin of US and Canada worth ten cents (dime)
4) a former GB coin worth one-quarter of a penny (farthing)
5) a hard, silver-white metal (symbol Ni), used in alloys; (US) a coin worth 5 cents (nickel)
6) a British coin worth one hundredth of a pound; (until 1971) a British coin worth one-twelfth of a shilling (penny)
7) (until 1971) a British coin with the value of twelve old pennies; a unit of currency in Kenya, Uganda etc (shilling)
8) a narrow opening through which something is to be put, e.g. for a coin in a machine to buy a ticket, cigarettes, sweets (slot)
9) the long movable part at the end of the body of a bird, some animals, fish or reptiles; the side of a coin opposite to that on which there is the head of a ruler etc (tail)