Artist is experienced — emptied and converted gold into cash (9)

I believe the answer is:

monetised

'converted gold into cash' is the definition.
(as in turning a metal into currency)

'artist is experienced emptied' is the wordplay.
'artist' becomes 'monet' (I've seen this before).
'emptied' means to remove the middle letters.
'experienced' with its centre taken out is 'ed'.
'monet'+'is'+'ed'='MONETISED'

'and' acts as a link.

(Another definition for monetised that I've seen is " produced as legal tender".)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.

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