Tell Lucy: coin minted for local authority (6,7)
I believe the answer is:
county council
'local authority' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'tell lucy coin minted' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'tell' could be 'count' (I've seen this before) and 'count' is present in the answer.
'coin' could be 'c' and 'c' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for county council that I've seen is " Local authority".)