Coining. [a. F. flan (OF. flan, flaon: see FLAWN) orig. a round cake, but transf. to this sense from the similarity in shape.] A disc of metal before stamping; a blank.
1868. G. Stephens, Runic Monuments, II. 511. But on all the Golden Bracteates, whether with or without runes, the eye or loop has nothing to do with the Bracteate itself, that round stampt flan or lamina which thus is mounted.
1880. B. Head, Guide Coins British Museum, 2. The form of the ingot (flan) of most of the early coins was bean-shaped or oval, except in Southern Italy, where the earliest coins of the Achæan cities were flat and circular.
