This was the first $ 50 coin issued by the U. S. Mint and no higher was produced until the production of the $ 100 platinum coins in 1997.

This coin was struck by Alexios during his war against Robert Guiscard.

The thermosetting phenolic resin was at one point considered for the manufacture of coins, due to a shortage of traditional material ; in 1943, Bakelite and other non-metal materials were tested for usage for the one cent coin in the US before the Mint settled on zinc-coated steel.

The first international convention for coin collectors was held 15 – 18 August 1962, in Detroit, Michigan, and was sponsored by the American Numismatic Association and the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association.

This was more common on older coins because the coin dies were hand carved.

By the mid 20th century, with the growing market for rare coins, the Sheldon system was adopted by the American Numismatic Association and most coin professionals in the North America.

A five-centime coin was known as a sou, i. e. a solidus or shilling.

This was to assure the individual taking the coin that he was getting a certain known weight of precious metal.

The Pilier des nautes links him with sailors and with commerce, suggesting that he was also associated with material wealth as does the coin pouch from the Cernunnos of Rheims ( Marne, Champagne, France )— in antiquity, Durocortorum, the civitas capital of the Remi tribe — and the stag vomiting coins from Niedercorn-Turbelslach ( Luxembourg ) in the lands of the Treveri.

Shortly following his accession as Emperor, Domitian bestowed the honorific title of Augusta upon Domitia, while their son was deified, appearing as such on the reverse of coin types from this period.

The reverse depicts the Roman goddess Minerva, who was Domitian's favoured deity, and appeared on numerous coin types throughout his reign.

This was contained within a large box, and only permitted the images to be viewed by one person at a time looking into it through a peephole, after starting the machine by inserting a coin.

Hercules was on the coin of the Republic.

Also the language on the coin with Hercules was far different than the rhetoric of pre-revolutionary depictions.

In the New Testament period, the only golden coin, the aureus, was worth approximately 3, 200 of the smallest bronze coin, the lepton ( translated into Latin as minuti ); while the Roman standard silver coin, the denarius, was worth 128 leptons.

Cleveland and Treasury Secretary Daniel Manning stood firmly on the side of the gold standard, and tried to reduce the amount of silver that the government was required to coin under the Bland-Allison Act of 1878.

The question was, " Ronni flipped a coin three times and in all cases heads came up.

He celebrated the occasion by striking the earliest papal coin, and in a mark of the direction the mediaeval papacy was to take, no longer dated his documents by the Emperor in the east, but by the reign of Charles, king of the Franks.

Half escudo gold coin of Philip V, dated 1743

Coin from ancient Thasos showing Satyr and nymph, dated to late fifth century BC. Archilochus was involved in the Parian colonization of Thasos about two centuries before the coin was minted.

James Phillips, in ( The History of Pembrokeshire ) ( published 1909 ) records a find of Roman silver coins in Haverfordwest, the earliest dated coin a Valerian and the latest a Claudius Gothicus.

Several varieties of the first small coin dated 1992 exist.

After a review of the United Kingdom coinage, it was decided that a general-circulation £ 2 coin was needed, and a new bi-metallic design was issued on 15 June 1998 ( dated 1997 ).

There is one unique penny coin known which is dated 1808, but this is thought to have been a proof.

A penny of King Edward VIII ( 1936 ) does exist, dated 1937, but technically it is a pattern coin i. e. one produced for official approval which it would probably have been due to receive about the time that the King abdicated.

Firstly, the newly dated coins in the silver coin hoards give an earliest possible burial date for the coin hoards to 52 / 3-66 CE, based on an interpretation of a countermark.

It has already been shown that de Vaux's dating system of Qumran and the silver coin hoards was based on what is generally known as a circular argument ; the end of the first major settlement period was dated after the assumed date of hiding of the coin hoards, which in turn dated the coin hoards themselves.

This coin also appears dated 1646.

Finds include a large building, numerous potsherds from the Late Roman period, a bronze coin from the first or second century CE, remains of an ancient olive press, glass vessels such as a wine goblet and bottles dated to the Late Byzantine and Umayyad periods ( seventh and first half of eighth centuries CE ) and an underground water reservoir A few potsherds from the Crusader and Mamluk periods were also found.

Though there is little evidence of his existence, during the 20th Century, buttons and a coin dated 1873 were found in here.

The coin was dated and showed the king riding a horse.

However, during the excavation carried out in 1959 by the Department of Archaeology, in front of Diwan-e-Aam, a gold coin of Mahmood of Ghazni dated AH 416 ( 1025 AD ) was found at a depth of 7. 62 metres from the level of the lawns.

It has not been precisely dated but from coin finds it has been attributed to the Iron Age, possibly being a ceremonial site of the Tarentaisian culture ( c. 725 BC – 450 BC ).

Since 1780, the coin has always been dated 1780.

The ditch was filled before any secondary silt formed and the filling contained a Trajanic coin dated 98 – 117 CE and pottery suggesting a Hadrianic or early Antonine date.

Early in the 1st century BCE, they adopted the Greek and Roman practice of issuing coinage, adapting the widely imitated gold staters of Philip II of Macedon, in the characteristic Celtic coin metal alloy called billion.

He also designed the conjoint portrait of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on the 2007 crown coin, celebrating their sixtieth wedding anniversary.

File: Agnel d ' or 1311 641413. jpg | Agnus Dei on the 1311 coin of King Philip IV of France.

In 1275 it received from King Philip III of France the right to coin, which it maintained until 1693.

Since Philip the Fair, the rulers of France had used monetary alteration ( mutations monétaires ) to devalue the coin of the realm, causing high inflation.

* Bodrum-Yassiada shipwreck ( Ottoman, 16th c. AD ) ( dated by a sixteenth-century 4-real silver coin from Seville ( Philip II ) )

During this hearing, Philip N. Diehl, then Director of the Mint, estimated that it would take thirty months to begin production of the new coin.

Philip II of Macedon-silver tetradrachm coin.

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy widow, Elizabeth Murdock, to find a stolen coin called the Brasher Doubloon.