müntide

Müntide is the genitive plural form of münt, the Estonian word for a coin. It is used to express possession or association with coins, and appears in many coin-related phrases and texts. The standard nominative plural is mündid, while müntide marks the genitive plural.

A münt (coin) is a small metal piece issued as money by a government or central bank. Coins typically carry a denomination, a year, and national symbols or portraits, and form part of a country’s monetary system alongside paper money. In Estonia, the official currency today is the euro; euro coins are produced by national mints under the supervision of the European Central Bank. Historically, Estonia used the Estonian kroon (1992–2010), and its coins are often discussed in numismatic contexts as mündid.

In Estonian, müntide occurs frequently in discussions of coinage, collecting, and history. It is commonly found in titles and labels such as müntide kogumine (coin collecting), müntide väärtus (the value of coins), and riigi müntide ajalugu (the history of the state’s coins). The term is used in both everyday language and specialized literature on numismatics.

Numismatics, the study and collection of coins, uses the term müntide to refer to coins in a general sense or to the group of coins belonging to a collection. The word thus bridges linguistic description and practical or historical discussion of physical coins.