| Before it can be counted the next job will be to clean and separate the cash, as some of the metals have corroded and coins have stuck together. |
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| The Dalasi is divided into 100 bututs, and there are coins for five, 10, 25 and 50 bututs, although apart form the 50 these are rarely seen. |
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| The reason for the change in formulation is that numismatic specialists and antiquarians insisted that coins had to be made of metal. |
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| Since the one who has money sets the rules, it is no wonder that the man who coins money is wealthy. |
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| The halier 20 and 10 coins are not used anymore and can be exchanged in offices of National Bank of Slovakia. |
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| You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. |
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| As they watched, one of the players shambled over to the jukebox and fed a handful of coins into it. |
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| The starting player may either put a bid in coins down on the table, or drop out, and take the lowest valued card on the table. |
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| He produced a small, but bulging, orange change purse and shook it, rattling the coins inside. |
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| The sale of collectible postage stamps and coins also constitutes a major part of the republic's revenue. |
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| Foreign coins of various mintage circulated freely, some dating back to Roman times. |
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| Don't be surprised to see an old man take out some ancient coins and small chinaware from his pocket. |
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| Coin hoards have been found in Wales dating to the 9th, 10th, and 11th cents., but the coins were foreign, mainly English, Viking, or Arabic. |
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| Most modern currencies are fiat currency, allowing the coins to be made of base metal. |
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| United States coins and currency are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues. |
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| It should be noted that E. F. Kankrin, then the Russian minister of finance, made use of Goethe's advice to mint coins in platinum. |
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| The emperor gave the two men a bag of gold coins in exchange for their promise to begin working on the fabric immediately. |
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| With the introduction of the shekel on February 24, 1980, a series of new agora coins was put into circulation. |
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| John, now leaning against a newspaper-vending box, puts more coins in the payphone. |
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| So a few days ago my son was out playing and decided to give away the five coins that were rattling around in his pocket. |
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| Some gasp when Jesus is whipped, many toss bills and coins into collection buckets being passed around. |
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| After they finished, one of the classes separated the coins into denominations and counted them up for me. |
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| What shall a young reaver do but spend his coins like the snake sips water? |
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| The henna powder was boiled for thirty minutes with copper coins in the water. |
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| Players take four coins of one denomination, four of a second, two of a third, and one of a fourth. |
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| Many pieces of priceless ivories, sculptures and gold coins were also sold to unscrupulous foreign dealers. |
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| If you flip 16 million coins 50 times, some of them will come up heads every time. |
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| The overstriking of masses of foreign coins in a short period is often associated with military activity and the payment of troops. |
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| She glanced sideways at Nadeline, who nodded and took out the bag, tossing it casually on the table, the sound of coins echoing through the pub. |
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| Then she subdivided the coins in the groups into good, so-so and indifferent. |
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| The issuance of the new coins is to meet people's need for small change, as well as to support cash transactions, the bank said in a statement. |
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| Ticket machines at tram stations have been overhauled because of the number of fake coins and notes used to pay for fares. |
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| After all, when it came to minting coins the Angevins introduced Angevin practice into both England and Normandy. |
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| We talked for a while, and after her coins ran out I jotted the number on the wood beside my phone and called her back. |
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| This is a very small mintage for a coin, so the buyers might be happier with their coins in the future. |
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| In Germany it is possible to buy small gold bars and coins and open gold accounts in bank branches. |
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| They have come across thousands of objects ranging from Georgian coins and rings to thimbles and buckles, but this was their first big find. |
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| Both children and adults can participate in activities such as skipping rope, kicking stones, and throwing coins for luck. |
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| The price of tobacco was high, the purchaser getting enough leaf to balance the silver coins placed on the other pan of the scales. |
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| Large quantities of billon coins were produced in the Roman era, many with a silver wash, and in mediaeval times throughout Europe. |
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| Georgie opens up a small sack containing gold and silver coins and paper money. |
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| The coin had been earlier reported to Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, where it is being researched by keeper of coins Dr Mark Blackburn. |
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| Sip a whiskey sour in the Vault Bar and you can gaze at gold bars on the walls and moulded coins in the ceilings. |
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| Apart from collecting himself he has had notes and coins sent to him by people who know of his interest. |
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| Though Norman dukes controlled the coinage in their domain, no new coins had been minted since the time of William's grandfather. |
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| The hryvna is broken down into 100 kopiykas, which are issued in coins of 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, and 50 unit values. |
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| Some of the countries have also introduced commemorative coins with the face value of 10 Euro. |
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| The coins glimmered in my palm, dully reflecting the dim light cast by the streetlamp overhead. |
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| One of the coins is a holey dollar, created in New South Wales in 1813 from a silver dollar minted in Peru. |
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| Member States of the Community may issue coins subject to approval of the European Central Bank as to volume. |
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| The book is richly detailed and aspires to be a comprehensive history of the mint, the coins it produced, and the people connected with it. |
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| Youngsters stood near the road, bearing small boxes to collect coins from passers-by. |
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| Rome and Constantinople were personified as enthroned women on coins and consular diptychs. |
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| And six coins were recovered including a florin, a sixpence, two pennies and two half pennies. |
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| The Baron was in the Great Hall, counting coins and stacking them in piles. |
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| Berndon was looking at a chestnut mare with a black mane and tail and took out some coins to pay for it. |
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| The Nawab agreed on condition that the dewan paid for the required piece of land by spreading as many Gold coins as would cover the entire spot. |
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| Most valued are the doubloons, aluminum coins about the size of a silver dollar with the krewe's emblem. |
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| He has a habit of leaving coins in his pants that the maid scrupulously preserves in a bleach cup. |
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| Once he has reached that figure he will begin laying the coins end to end to try and form the longest line of pennies ever. |
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| Pallissaro fed a few more coins into the ravenous meter until it showed a fourteen pounds credit. |
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| The extra parking revenue will help pay for a new pay station system instead of putting coins in the barrier to leave the car park. |
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| Legend has it that each new Governor would mint his own coins but local people kept using bread as their currency regardless. |
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| Moreover, their date cannot really be established, since the scratchings could have been made decades after the coins were minted. |
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| Mining virtual coins can cost more in electricity than you can make cashing them in. |
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| The Ellenor Foundation can turn old mobile phones, used postage stamps, empty toner and ink cartridges and foreign coins and notes into cash. |
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| He has been collecting coins and currency notes for the last three decades and his thirst for more remains unquenched. |
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| Carefully counting out her remaining coins on the table, the woman suddenly exploded into argument. |
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| Her birthday party was held at a game arcade where you trade coins for tokens and you play at game machines with the tokens. |
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| Other artefacts uncovered include a silver bowl, glassware, pottery, coins and a jet brooch. |
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| The capsule, containing Victorian coins and a copy of the Manchester Guardian, dated July 9, 1885, was found hidden in a foundation stone. |
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| After plenty of car crashes, the pair discover a trunk full of gold coins of South African mintage. |
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| Young men were stripped to the waist and fighting to the clink of wagered coins and shouts of encouragement. |
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| To avoid bulges or the annoying sound of coins clinking, try to keep your pockets empty. |
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| He added more coins to the handkerchief and started a separate pile containing of fragments of the jug. |
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| Any earlier coins that show a countermark do not indicate a date when later coins were countermarked. |
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| Working in a bank, it's odd to see that people still have old notes and coins kicking about which they bring in from time to time to exchange. |
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| Similarly, delineation of Indra has been identified in the coins of some other Indo-Greek kings of comparable vintage. |
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| It seems entirely reasonable to predict that the numismatic value of the first coins ever minted with extraterrestrial metals will skyrocket. |
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| Eventually the Romans copped on to the unifying power of currency and circulated their coins widely throughout the empire. |
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| The most simple method of I Ching divination makes use of 3 coins to read the hexagrams. |
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| Guthrum's coins bore his English baptismal name, while other coins minted in East Anglia were copies of the coins of Alfred of Wessex. |
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| In the game, players take turns to push coins up a board with horizontal lines across it. |
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| Since he received a commission on all the coins that were struck, he managed to do quite well for himself. |
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| Roman coins and blue glass beads have been found among the remains of buildings at the Groundwell Ridge historic site. |
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| The people clapped and smiled, throwing coins and paper money into their cases. |
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| There are banknotes of 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 Gambian dalasis, as well as coins of 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 bututs. |
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| The first indigenous Scottish coins were minted in 1135 during the reign of David I, with successive Scottish monarchs introducing new features. |
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| Some years back, the first coins produced with new dies looked better than the ones produced later. |
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| Small holdings of gold and silver coins and bullion can be held in a bank safe deposit box or in a pipe buried in the back yard. |
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| Security has been reviewed at Manchester Museum after three rare coins were stolen from a display case. |
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| The Parking Meter bonus brings five free spins, and when coins appear on the reels to feed the meters, bonuses multiply. |
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| Chan could make the coins on a Vegas table disappear in a split second or change the time on a watch with only a quick touch. |
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| As he fed coins into it and peered confused into the handset, I tried to help. |
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| Foil-wrapped chocolate coins called Hanukkah Gelt are given as gifts and are also the prize in a children's game called dreidel. |
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| The point is that Fekete's plan calls for opening up the U.S. Mint for coinage of both gold and silver coins as the Founders intended. |
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| The next major change was the advent of lower-value coins in the form of silver minims, struck or cast bronze, or cast potin. |
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| So that still leaves us looking for a country that leans towards coins yet has coins of increasing size with value. |
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| Only when Tiffany shoved a few coins in the machine slot and restarted the aeroplane again did the child shut up. |
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| Coins chinked above him as the girls began to count the coins into a lunch box. |
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| We know Roman coins were found there in times past, but there is no other direct evidence. |
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| Newsagents' cash registers chinked to the silvery tune of an additional 1.75 million 5p coins hitting the tills. |
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| All Scots and foreign coins were then sent to the Scottish mint to be melted down and replaced by money issued by the English crown. |
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| He has been collecting ancient coins for the past 30 years and has about 2,500 coins dating back to various civilizations. |
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| Some coins have a rounded heptagonal shape that allows their use in slot machines designed for ordinary coins. |
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| On November 26, French riot police broke through a picket line at a mint producing the new euro coins in Pessac, near Bordeaux. |
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| By counterfeit coinage was meant not so much the striking of imitations from base metal as coins struck in mints not controlled by the king. |
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| Macquarie's master stroke in creating the Holey Dollar had created two coins out of one. |
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| I explained that all Euro coins have the same face but that the obverse depicts a scene of the country where the Euro coin was first issued. |
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| Age old tricks like supergluing coins or other treats to the ground will easily fool the Uni minions. |
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| Scottish coins were always in chronically short supply while foreign money circulated freely. |
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| One of the coins in the set was a 2 ore coin with the face value of about 9 satang. |
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| Her newest hobby is collecting each of the new Euro coins from each country. |
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| Buddhist temple coins here in Japan are inscribed with kana syllables, not kanji ideograms. |
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| Now, the 1 and 2 crown coins will have to substitute the role of haliers and the currency will just go down deeper and deeper. |
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| If you have jars or bottles which contain coppers or foreign coins at home you could donate them to the project. |
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| He said the coins are advertised as nearly pure silver when they're only silver-plated. |
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| These portrait coins were minted from 814 to 818, and it was probably during this period that Louis also struck a splendid gold coinage. |
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| The coins were Kennedy half dollars decorated with patriotic images, Eastman says. |
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| They received payment in the form of both paper currency and coins of various denominations. |
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| Be advised to carry loose coins lest you incur the wrath of a taxi driver who does not have enough change. |
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| Euro notes and coins enter circulation in 12 European Union countries, in the biggest monetary changeover in history. |
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| In 1967, coins were introduced for 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 sene. Except for the bronze 1 and 2 sene, these coins were struck in cupro-nickel. |
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| The chances of finding the Thai Millennium coins in your change are very small. |
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| Casualties are X-rayed to pinpoint the location of coins and some require surgery. |
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| Choosing victims heavily laden with carrier bags, he would throw a few coins on the floor and then tell them that they had dropped their money. |
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| One old lady in her 70s sits singing and strumming her guitar with a maraca, cataracts on both eyes, a few coins at her feet. |
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| One of the coins was in a wonderfully good state of preservation, while the other was battered and misshapen. |
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| Other cheaters use Morse code with coins and various other tricks known to conjurers. |
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| The mintage was very small, in un-circulated 2,602 coins were struck, while only 623 were struck in proof condition. |
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| Techies are used to spending an ungodly amount of time mining virtual coins in online games. |
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| Freshly minted gold coins still flecked with gold dust filled the wooden chest to the brim. |
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| The entrance fee was one shilling, and we had to borrow several pails to hold the coppers and other coins that were paid in. |
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| In the afternoon the young Maharajah rode on his elephant, showering gold and silver coins on jubilant crowds of his subjects. |
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| Mr Field must now wait for the Suffolk coroner to hold an inquest to decide if the coins are treasure trove of if they will be returned to him. |
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| The policy and process for deciding on coin designs for our coins is based on the Mint's Policy on Coin Designs and Issue. |
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| When they were condemned to gather firewood from hills, their punishment could be commuted to a payment of 300 coins per month. |
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| Where possible, small change should be exchanged for larger coins or notes in order to make the work of counting the money a little easier. |
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| Customers take their stash to the store, pour the unsorted coins into the machines and out pops a voucher redeemable for cash or shopping. |
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| The gaming system avoids having to use coins or tokens in the operation of slot machines. |
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| Double thickness and double weight, Piedfort coins are very rare and hardly ever offered to the general public. |
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| Incidentally, the practice of putting some coins in a purse or wallet you buy for someone is called hanselling. |
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| The economic status of Ipswich in the Late Saxon Age is seen in the number of moneyers minting coins there. |
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| Remember from your reading that coins issued in certain years did not have mint marks. |
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| Each card will have 2 coins of the same denomination showing both the First new mint mark and final no mint mark coins. |
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| While gold coins are set on one side of this necklace, the reverse comprises units of rubies and emeralds encircled with pearls. |
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| It was the later French adaptation which changed swords to spades, wands to clubs, cups to hearts, and coins to diamonds. |
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| Among the rarest copper coins was one of Carausius, with two heads on it symbolling the ambition of our native usurper to assert empire. |
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| The coins could, in uncirculated condition, be bought for face value, while in proof condition one had to pay double face value. |
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| Now, if those trowel-botherers had been after a bag of gold coins or an ancient jewelled dagger, I might understand. |
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| Maalouf has also noted that the sultana ruled as Umm Khalil, minted coins in her own name and had the Friday sermon pronounced in her name. |
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| Throughout, he narrows his eyes behind bushy eyebrows and slips coins from hand to hand, as if fondling a rosary. |
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| The two tiny tattered figures were familiar sights on the streets below, begging for coins and scavenging the bins. |
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| After dropping a few coins for the lyrist and a quick farewell to Joseph, Alexander shuffled through the door. |
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| There were no five-santim coins among the counterfeit money found in Latvia last year. |
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| Meanwhile her male friend, shuffled along the platform after her, a small pile of coins in his hand. |
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| Metal coins had an intrinsic value based on the scarcity of the elements used in making them. |
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| I tend to pick out the one pound coins and the silver to buy my lunch the next day so generally it's just the coppers that are left. |
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| They are asking the public and shopkeepers to be aware of people trying to change large numbers of coins into notes. |
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| A time of heavy coins and horse manure, warmish beer, a scandalous flash of ankle. |
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| Players attempt to throw coins or disks in the holes which score differently according to their difficulty. |
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| Also a numismatist, he has a vast collection of stamps and coins from almost all countries, and his name figures in the Limca Book of Records. |
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| In the numismatic section of the museum, coins of ancient and British India, and those of other countries are on display. |
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| I meekly stuffed the meter with pound coins to the maximum permitted amount and we commenced shifting boxes and bags. |
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| These coins were handed out as talismans by the monarch at a special ceremony to sufferers of the skin disease, scrofula. |
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| The larger denomination coins and the notes are being spent but the vast majority of opinion regards them as having little spending power. |
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| With this, he appeared to dismiss out of hand the potential numismatic and heritage interest of any coins and bullion that might be recovered. |
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| They were among 13 arrests made during the visit which saw the Queen hand out Maundy coins to 158 pensioners. |
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| The development of coins created the need for bookkeepers to maintain transaction records. |
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| Coffee drinkers in luxurious coffee shops may throw a disrespectful or pathetic look on me, one who puts coins in the slot of a coffee machine. |
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| Well you pay for the ticket by inserting coins into a coin slot, and of course, notably the ticket machine does not take notes. |
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| For if a person strikes many coins from one mold, they are all exactly alike. |
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| Its romance though, is a magnet for lovers, and many pause to throw in their coins and seal their hopes with a smooch. |
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| Of course, any little kid walking past loves him and Mum or Dad feels obliged to chuck a few coins in his hat. |
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| And the original law also excluded archaeologically significant coins of base metals, helmets of iron and bronze, and so on. |
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| Gold bullion coins are usually sold as one troy ounce or in fractions of an ounce. |
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| His interest in numismatology began when he found 15 Roman coins in the sand. |
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| Some copper alloy coins of the 1st to 3rd centuries AD can be identified as contemporary copies. |
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| Commemorative coins have been struck, but sold for much more than the metal value and often for more than face value. |
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| And much as the Roman Empire had clipped their coins to create more money, the Fed was already undermining the gold standard. |
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| The only exception to this in my judgment would be permanent acquisition of gold and silver coins or bullion by individual investors. |
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| In olden days, crooks used to shave or clip the edges of coins and then sell the shavings to a disreputable goldsmith or silversmith. |
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| There was a clink as some of the coins rattled to its tin floor. |
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| The loose change was counted up yesterday at the Sainsbury's store in Vauxhall, south London, using a machine which counts up to 600 coins a minute. |
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| Here is a person who has evinced keen interest in photography, freelance journalism, photojournalism, trekking, river rafting, and collection of coins and stamps. |
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| The new Foreign Secretary fed a few coins into a parking meter and slipped back into his flat, unaware that his cherished privacy was being gatecrashed by a photographer. |
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| The huge range of finds from the site include, from Roman levels, a rare button-and-loop fastener made of bone, painted glass, Samian pottery, coins and oyster shells. |
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| Teller windows at the Bank of France were mobbed by a record crowd as a deadline for declaring franc coins expired, the central bank said on Friday. |
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| These coins were legal tender in the USA until 1857, as the young USA had few coins and many merchants preferred the Spanish Reals to USA coinage. |
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| There are banknotes of denomination 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 Hryvnias and coins of denomination 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 kopiykas and a 1 Hryvnia coin. |
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| These coins were of various denominations and belong to different ages. |
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| She parks just off Lambton Quay, but, realising she has no coins to put in the parking meter, she dashes off to the nearest shop to get some money. |
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| The early history of music-printing relates closely to printing in general and to the ancillary arts of engraving, map-making, and die-cutting for coins and medals. |
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| Back in the day, I marshaled some of the rare coins I had in junior high and took out a subscription to Rolling Stone. |
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| The bar owner would change all the coins into paper money for us. |
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| The earliest, a worn denarius of Severus Alexander, was particularly interesting as it showed that such coins were still in use at least 250 years after they had been struck. |
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| The morning was gray and overcast, but now the sun has come out of hiding and is scattering its golden light like so many glittering coins through the woods around us. |
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| He took the two coins with a half grin and inserted them in the slot. |
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| The 200 baht coins have the same legend as the 100 baht coin. |
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| It is, therefore, something of a misnomer to speak of the transfer of funds as there is no actual transfer of coins and banknotes from the payer to the payee. |
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| The first Roman coins were struck in the early 3rd century BC, initially in precious metals but by the later 3rd century in bronze as the as and the denarius in silver. |
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| I don't collect anything now but I used to collect coins and stamps. |
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| The point is won by whichever team takes more cards of the coins suit. |
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| By the 17th century the Polish influence was nearly complete, with a range of denominations from small billon coins to large gold multiple ducats. |
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| They may not sell gold coins as quickly and as well as excessive alarmism, but they have the inestimable advantage of being true. |
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| Australia's earliest settlers adapted pitch and toss, a game popular in both England and Ireland, in which players wagered on the toss of coins towards a wall. |
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| I looked down at the little ashtray on his gold coloured hostess trolley, two lonely pound coins looked back up at me, so I ferreted around in my pocket for something smaller. |
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| His trembling hand struggles to pick up coins from the bottom of a drawer. |
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| Apart from providing the UK's coinage, Royal Mint also produces some of the world's finest coins and provides coinage for more than 100 countries. |
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| These coins have a face value, but the actual value is the price of gold. |
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| Best known as the maker of the state's first coinage, issuing shillings, sixpence, and threepence silver coins in 1783, Chalmers's marked domestic silver is exceedingly rare. |
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| Numismatists firmly believe that the first coins were made of electrum, a naturally-occurring alloy mostly of gold and silver, with traces of other metals. |
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| Once in the eastern Mediterranean they bought up the local gold bezant coins of the Byzantine empire or Arabic dinars and ultimately these became a source of gold for Europe. |
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| Physical methods such as tossing coins or throwing dice or picking numbered balls from a rotating drum as in Lottery games are always unpredictable. |
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| The issuance regime of Bitcoin allocates new coins to the miners. |
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| They are planning to surround their school with coins placed end to end. |
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| His long, flowing locks framed a handsome face, and his neatly trimmed Vandyke beard and mustache were familiar from the image on many coins and from portraits. |
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| One of the most famous hoards of Roman coins is the Arras hoard. |
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| They were also the first English coins to be struck using steam power. |
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| From January 1, only the new bills and coins are legal tender. |
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| The pyx is the strong-box in which the coins are delivered to the jury. |
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| Lower denominations such as 1, 5, 10 bututs don't circulate because of the effects of inflation which have rendered the coins worthless in day-to-day commerce. |
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| In the early days, after meetings in McGuinness's flat on Waterloo Road, the band would reach into a jar of coins their manager kept on his sideboard for their bus fare home. |
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| Counting the coins I handed half of them to Niko to purchase horses, blankets and bedding, and lanterns as well as any other necessities he believed we had need of. |
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| While gold coins and bullion continued to dominate the monetary system of Europe, it was not until the 18th century that paper money began to dominate. |
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| They soon struck lucky, finding the coins scattered over a wide area. |
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| All in all, not a cheerful day except for the one time when I exchanged a few words with a woman in the carpark, she seeking ten pence coins to feed the meter. |
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| Mike begins listening to long forgotten audiotapes of a therapy session, while Hank discovers a hoard of old-time coins and treasures buried in the wall. |
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| Both coins are genuine dupondii of an official mint of Nero. |
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| The remedy was to implement a de jure gold standard so as to free England from the effects of Gresham's law and to keep token silver coins in circulation. |
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| South Lakeland residents are being urged to slot their coins in the collecting tins of the Royal British Legion to invest in a poppy to wear with pride. |
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| A galaxy of spangles and silver coins glitters across each back. |
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| The numismatics gallery has coins collected from as many as 60 countries. |
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| In Wales, no coins were struck until after the Norman invasion. |
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| The currency board simply issues notes and coins and offers the service of converting local currency into the anchor currency at a fixed rate of exchange. |
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| Merchants ran about, plunging their bejeweled fingers into their bulging leather purses in order to recount their coins every three minutes or so. |
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| He was even said to have tossed coins in the air and shot them with the colt .45 and the .357 Magnum he was said always to carry. |
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| He produced a bread knife and ordered the women to open the safe and then lie on the ground before he stuffed notes and coins into a black holdall. |
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| The largest hoard of Iron Age gold and silver coins yet found in Britain was found by a detectorist walking a field in Leicestershire earlier this year. |
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| The police also recovered Rs 30,000 cash and 29 coins from the box. |
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| All donations of old coins will be forwarded to the missions. |
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| On top of the table is a reasonably substantial amount of cash in notes, coins and IOUs, and beside it a manky old duffel bag destined to carry home someone's winnings. |
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| We stood there, row after row of blank-faced benefactors, feeding coins in to what are now called fruit machines, but were once known more accurately as one-armed bandits. |
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| There are three recognised mule coins from the Republic of India. |
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| The drone of the poker machines, roulette wheels and craps tables is punctuated by the bleeps, trills and occasional rattling of coins from the one-armed bandits. |
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| The ritually impure might handle such coins through a layer of cloth. |
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| A century on King Midas of Lydia was the first to mint coins of silver and gold and in the same century the Athenians added the refinement of having devices on both sides. |
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| He and his heirs maintained a remarkable consistency in size and weight, and all coins were minted by strictly controlled moneyers in boroughs and other local centres. |
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| They can watch us sitting in the draught at the door of the hall with a hat collecting pound coins as villagers straggle in to watch the latest show. |
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| This material consists of hoards of coins and silverware either looted from Britain or paid over to raiders, or potential raiders, as blood money. |
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| The earliest known Irish coins were minted by Sihtric Olafsson in the Viking kingdom of Dublin after 990 and were copies of English silver pennies. |
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| The coins were minted by the Royal Mint and are legal tender. |
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| His is an impressive collection of rusty coins and nails, corroded bullets and belt buckles, pieces of swords and knives, shards and bits of broken bottles. |
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| Whether closed with Velcro, zippers, snaps or straps, the coin purse keeps a handy supply of coins for parking meters, the laundry, public phones and stamp machines. |
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| Casinos are designed to bamboozle you with the sensory overload created by the flashing lights and jingles and the sound of endless coins tumbling down into a metal tray. |
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| They could melt down the coins and convert the monetary metals into jewelry and plate, or have them exported along with new gold and silver from the mines. |
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| The cheapest one-armed bandits are just 25c, which sounds like good value until you're tempted to win bigger amounts by playing three coins at a time. |
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| A small jiggle would be identified by the coins in his pocket jangling, while a titanic jiggle would set the cube wall, the floor and my desk vibrating wildly. |
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| The previous, small, dumpy, and rather informal silver coins were replaced by broader, thinner and heavier silver pennies which carried the name of the king and the moneyer. |
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| She found her own secret money box, and grabbed some coins in a hurry. |
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| Gold and silver coins from France and Portugal could also be found. |
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| If a player rolled a twelve, he collected all the coins on the board. |
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| The partner and I flip coins when we have to make calls to her. |
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| One classic puzzle, for example, starts with six coins packed tightly together in a rhomboid formation, made up of two nestled rows of three coins each. |
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| He made me stand and wait as he fastidiously counted his English coins into the palm of my hand, which I found a bit humiliating. |
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| I usually dug deep, handing over some coins or a tin of beans. |
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| Someone gave Joshua a zebra plant with some lucky Chinese coins in it. |
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| Spanish piece of eight, a coin common in the American colonies during the Revolution, had eight segments marked on their reverse so that the coins could be divided. |
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| They can erase the traces of human settlement with such vigour that, often, nothing remains of a civilisation except a few potsherds, coins and glass beads. |
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| There are a number of extant monumental variants, and renditions proliferated in copies and in versions on coins and vases and in relief sculpture. |
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| It made coins with plain rather than milled or otherwise marked edges. |
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| His parents urge him to save his coins in the little piggy bank on his dresser, yet they willingly give their own coins away to any stranger extending a hand across a counter. |
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| He describes himself on a train platform in Hanover, spiteful and sexually frustrated, throwing coins on the floor. |
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| We strolled the railroad tracks together, laying pennies on the rails and waiting for the train to pass so we could use the flattened coins for guitar picks. |
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| The coins were rinsed and radiographed daily for seven days. |
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| When she reached out for her change and turned to walk away, the shopkeeper held on to the gold coins between his thumb and forefinger and cupped a hand to his ear. |
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| Other valuable coins include a 1943 florin worth a four-figure sum and a 1938 Irish penny which is extremely rare because only one has been found to date. |
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| In the Coin Auction, banknotes, modern coins, gold bullion and sycees, ancient coins and bronze mirrors will be auctioned. |
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| The diagonal starting in the south-east reads TESTOONES, a name used of a number of European silver coins from about 1450 for 100 years or so. |
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| Caroline Lucas, Norwich TO prevent a shower curtain from flapping around, sew either lead fishing weights or coins into a hem at the bottom. |
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| The only coins allowed by the Turkish government to be struck at Cairo are the Mahbub Sequins, and Medini. |
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| The Bank of England is the UK's central bank and is responsible for issuing notes and coins in the nation's currency, the pound sterling. |
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| Among the finds was a hoard of 17 medieval coins discovered by Roland Mumford in December 2012, while metal detecting on farmland in Wenvoe. |
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| He had coins struck there that called him king, but there is no narrative record of his occupation. |
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| This advance was given up, possibly under pressure from Rome, and a later series of coins were again minted at Verulamium. |
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| The new reverses of the 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p coins feature parts of the Royal Shield, and the new pound coin depicts the whole shield. |
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| In 2002, euro banknotes and coins replaced national currencies in 12 of the member states. |
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| Jobless, his savings running low, Smaltz moved to Atlanta's Hancock and Harwell, a company that sold rare coins and precious metals. |
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| Sidhu said that around 70 to 80 coins and 150 to 200 nails, besides other foreign bodies are still present in Rajpal's stomach. |
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| Play games to earn coins and buy food to feed your tree and to buy plushies to keep them happy. |
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| Early Scottish coins were similar to English ones, but with the king's head in profile instead of full face. |
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| A search of the suspects' vehicle turned up 34 bronze coins and two historic grave stelae. |
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| Play them to have fun and to earn in-game coins that you use to buy food to feed your tree and to buy plushies to keep them happy. |
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| Feeling depressed, Beth wades into the famed Fountain Of Love and drunkenly snatches up a handful of coins and a poker chip. |
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| The first bottles from the SS Republic shipwreck will be offered for sale, as well as gold and silver coins and collectible shadowboxes. |
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| The first map shows the places of origin of 37 Merovingian coins found in the Sutton Hoo treasure trove. |
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| Other coins dating back to the times of the Seleucids Kingdom have been discovered on the same island. |
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| The Mint could not find a suitable metal which was sufficiently different in colour to the existing coins and which would not tarnish. |
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| A STASH of more than one hundred gold coins that date back to the time of Richard the Lionheart has been found at a 13th century castle. |
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| Philip and Mary appeared on coins together, with a single crown suspended between them as a symbol of joint reign. |
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