Gold coin of Claudius ( 50 – 51 ) excavated in South India, an example of Indo-Roman trade during the period.

Gold fineness in carats comes from carats and grains of gold in a solidus of coin.

The special issue Canadian Gold Maple Leaf coin contains the highest purity gold of any bullion coin, at 99. 999 % or 0. 99999, while the popular issue Canadian Gold Maple Leaf coin has a purity of 99. 99 %.

Other popular modern coins include the Austrian Vienna Philharmonic bullion coin and the Chinese Gold Panda.

Gold coin of Justinian I ( 527 – 565 CE ) excavated in India probably in the south, an example of Indo-Roman trade during the period.

This huge success of the Krugerrand encouraged other gold-producing countries to mint and issue gold bullion coins of their own, including the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf in 1979, the Australian Nugget in 1981, the Chinese Gold Panda in 1982, the American Gold Eagle in 1986, and the British Britannia coin in 1987.

* Chinese Gold Panda, a gold coin

Gold and silver coins were legal tender, including the Spanish real, a silver coin struck in the Western Hemisphere.

Gold coin ofSigismund of Hungary with his coat of arms ( right ), and the image of the King Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary ( left ).

Gold coin of Vladimir

Gold stater of the Greco-Bactrian king Eucratides I | Eucratides, the largest gold coin of Antiquity.

Gold coin of Bartolomeo Gradenigo ( 1260-1342 ): the Doge kneeling before St. Mark.

Gold solidus ( coin ) | solidus of Leo I, struck 462 – 473 AD at Constantinople.

Gold solidus ( coin ) | solidus of Romanos I with his eldest son, Christopher Lekapenos

Providentia has been the main motive for many collector coins and medals, the most recent one is the famous 100 euro Sculpture Gold coin issued on November 13, 2002.

* American Gold Eagle, a bullion coin ( 1986 onwards )

Gold coin, commemorating Emperor Francis ' coronation in 1745

The writers' Gold Tee Award will go to John McAuliffe of Plainfield, N. J., and Palm Beach, Fla., for his sponsorship of charity tournaments.

Some of Cheney's motorcycle designs are now famous in their own right, such as the competition BSA Gold Stars of Jerry Scott and Keith Hickman and the John Banks replica which used a BSA B50 engine specially tuned by Cheney.

** Eight players from the 1950 team played for Head Coach John Longfellow as the United States ' Gold Medal Basketball team at the inaugural 1951 Pan-American Games.

In 2000, John Updike selected his short story " Gold Coast " for his collection Best American Short Stories of the Century ( Houghton Mifflin ).

Although famous throughout California for his association with the Gold Rush, Sutter died almost poor, having seen his business ventures fail while those of his elder son, John Augustus Sutter, Jr., were more successful.

* Phllby has a key role in Mike Ripley's short story " Gold Sword " published in ' John Creasey's Crime Collection 1990 ' which was chosen as BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Story to mark the 50th anniversary of D-Day on 6th June 1994.

* Road Show ( 2008 ) ( book by John Weidman ; directed by John Doyle ); ( formerly titled Bounce, Wise Guys and Gold!

Instead, he cast his ballot for John M. Palmer, the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party, or Gold Democrats, a short-lived party that supported a gold standard, low tariffs, and limited government.

Nicks recorded the hit duets " Whenever I Call You Friend " with Kenny Loggins in 1978, and " Gold " with John Stewart in 1979.

* Discovery of Gold, by John A. Sutter, Hutchings ’ California Magazine, November 1857.

Muppet performers over the course of the show include Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Fran Brill, Eren Ozker, Steve Whitmire, Louise Gold, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, Brian Muehl, Bob Payne, and John Lovelady.

In that year the Portuguese built a fort, São de Mina ( modern day Elmina ), on the Gold Coast, and their king, John II, was permitted by the Pope II or Innocent VIII to style himself Lord of Guinea, a title that survived until the recent extinction of the monarchy.

* Download & play a recording of " Jenny Lind ", a polka from the Library of Congress ' California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collection ; performed by John Selleck ( violin ) on October 2, 1939 in Camino, California.

On May 6, 1859, during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, John H. Gregory found a gold-bearing vein ( the Gregory Lode ) in Gregory Gulch between Black Hawk and Central City.

* Gold Coast ( album ), by John Coltrane and Wilbur Harden

The Gold Coast region remained largely uninhabited by Europeans until 1823 when explorer John Oxley landed at Mermaid Beach.

In 1877 Whistler sued the critic John Ruskin for libel after the critic condemned his painting Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket.

Gold hyperpyron of John III Vatatzes

In addition, the Fremont Hospital in Yuba City, California, and the John C. Fremont Hospital, in Mariposa, California, ( where Frémont and his wife lived and prospered during the Gold Rush ) are named for him.

* John Hargis -- 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer is a 1992 Clinton high school graduate.

The town of Sacramento was originally named Cross Roads, but after returning from the California Gold Rush ( presumably having spent time in Sacramento, CA ), John Vickers suggested changing the name to Sacramento.

* John D Burgess, Piper, Double Gold Medallist

Gold hyperpyron of Andronikos II, kneeling before Christ.

A second and more contemporary collaboration with Harris and Ronstadt, Trio II ( 1999 ), was released and its cover of Neil Young's " After the Gold Rush " won a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.

In 1949, while working on the new version of Land of Black Gold ( the first version had been left unfinished by the outbreak of World War II ), Hergé suffered a nervous breakdown and was forced to take an abrupt four month-long break.

It was originally marketed as an underwater telegraph, rather than as sonar, but was later very successful, its Canadian inventor awarded the " Scientific American Magazine Gold Medal of Safety " in 1929 from the American Museum of Safety, an organization for ship captains ; some were still in use during World War II.

Gold augustale of Emperor Frederik II, as King of Sicily 1198 – 1250.

Giles was made a fellow and awarded the Patron's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1880 and was made Cavaliere dell ' Ordine della Corona d ' Italia ( Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy ) by King Vittorio Emanuele II.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

* 1999 — Best Country Collaboration with Vocals, " After the Gold Rush " from Trio II with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris

Hanna Reitsch ( 29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979 ) was a German aviator and the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II.

Jeu de paume at the 1908 Summer Olympics was a medal event ; American Jay Gould II won the Gold medal.

In World War II, troops from the Gold Coast emerged with even greater prestige after outstanding service in such places as Ethiopia and Burma.

World War II had just ended, and many Gold Coast veterans who had served in British overseas expeditions returned to a country beset with shortages, inflation, unemployment, and black-market practices.

Solidus ( coin ) | Gold coin of Constantine II ( emperor ) | Constantine II depicting Victoria on the reverse

A selection of United States military C-ration cans from the World War II era ( the vanilla caramels and Old Gold cigarettes were not part of the ration )

The original game was re-released in 1997 as Civilization II: Multiplayer Gold Edition, which bundled both prior expansion packs and added options for networked and hotseat play, and features tweaked AI.

Gold coins of Chandragupta II.

* Heroes of Might and Magic Millennium ( 1999 ), includes King's Bounty, Heroes I, Heroes II Gold and Heroes III, but no expansions to Heroes 3.

* Heroes of Might and Magic Platinum Edition ( 2002 ), includes Heroes I, Heroes II Gold and Heroes III Complete.

Gold coins of Chandragupta II the Great.

* Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap, Grade II race for thoroughbred horses run at Hawthorne Race Course each year

The Malamute dog has had a distinguished history ; aiding Rear Admiral Richard Byrd to the South Pole, and the miners who came to Alaska during the Gold Rush of 1896, as well as serving in World War II primarily as search and rescue dogs in Greenland, although also used as freighting and packing dogs in Europe.