Crossword Genius

Accepted foreign coins with greed (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

recognised

'accepted' is the definition.
('accepted'->'recognized' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')

'foreign coins with greed' is the wordplay.
'foreign' indicates an anagram (foreign order of the letters).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'coins' put after 'greed' is 'greedcoins'.
'greedcoins' with letters rearranged gives 'RECOGNISED'.

(Other definitions for recognised that I've seen before include "Acknowledged" , "given approval" , "Was aware of" , "appreciated" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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