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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[From

; cf. OF.

monoier

, F.

monnoayeur

, L.

monetarius

a master of the mint. Cf.

A person who deals in money; banker or broker.

[Obs. or R.]

An authorized coiner of money.

Sir M. Hale.

The Company of Moneyers

the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.

Noun.

A banker; one who deals in money.

A coiner of money. [Little used in either sense.]

moneyer ‎(plural moneyers)

(archaic) A moneylender.
(historical) Someone who makes coins; an official minter.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 350:
  As best they could, the imperial moneyers carved coin dies which imitated the coins of ancient Rome from half a millennium before.