The United States Mint operated a branch mint in Carson City between the years 1870 and 1893, which struck gold and silver coins.

The new system consisted of five coins: the aureus / solidus, a gold coin weighing, like its predecessors, one-sixtieth of a pound ; the argenteus, a coin weighing one ninety-sixth of a pound and containing ninety-five percent pure silver ; the follis, sometimes referred to as the laureatus A, which is a copper coin with added silver struck at the rate of thirty-two to the pound ; the radiatus, a small copper coin struck at the rate of 108 to the pound, with no added silver ; and a coin known today as the laureatus B, a smaller copper coin struck at the rate of 192 to the pound.

Etruscan coins were in gold, silver and bronze, the gold and silver usually having been struck on one side only.

A silver Indo-Portuguese coin featuring a standing figure facing right with flag struck for and minted in Goa during the reign of John IV of Portugal | John IV.

A silver King John penny, amongst the first to be struck in Dublin

Example of the miliaresion silver coins, first struck by Leo III to commemorate the coronation of his son, Constantine V, as co-emperor in 720.

The recoinage of silver in United Kingdom after a long drought produced a burst of coins: the United Kingdom struck nearly 40 million shillings between 1816 and 1820, 17 million half crowns and 1. 3 million silver crowns.

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

Because of the huge debt taken on by the U. S. Federal Government to finance the Revolutionary War, silver coins struck by the government left circulation, and in 1806 President Jefferson suspended the minting of silver coins.

He also proposed the establishment of a mint, at which citizens could present gold or silver, and receive it back, struck into money.

They called for the return to pre-1873 laws, which would require the Mint to take all the silver offered it and return it, struck into silver dollars.

The silver would be struck into dollar coins, to be circulated or else stored and used as backing for silver certificates.

Mike struck with the muzzle of the pistol.

This enviable record would have been maintained but for a great and unexpected disaster which struck the world with murderous stealth.

they were struck out with remarks in red ink, denouncing both the cooks and the management.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

Mickey tried to flatten against the banister, gripped it with one hand, but Roberts' full weight struck him at that moment in the groin.

A thug struck a cab driver in the face with a pistol last night after robbing him of $18 at Franklin and Mount Streets.

The younger Thomas ripped a screen door, breaking the latch, and after an argument struck his uncle with a rock, scratching his face.

A 62-year-old Smithfield man, Lester E. Stone of 19 Beverly Circle, was in satisfactory condition last night at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, North Providence, with injuries suffered when a car he was driving struck a utility pole on Woonasquatucket Avenue in North Providence near Stevens Street.

As he approached the open bandstand, erected facing the South entrance to the Executive Mansion, the band struck up the `` Star Spangled Banner '' and followed it with `` Hail To The Chief ''.

The aimless milling about of what had been a well-trained, well-organized crew struck Alexander with horror.

Apollo was called Ismenius ( ; Ἰσμηνιός, Ismēnios, literally " of Ismenus ") after Ismenus, the son of Amphion and Niobe, whom he struck with an arrow.

When Zeus struck down Apollo's son Asclepius with a lightning bolt for resurrecting Hippolytus from the dead ( transgressing Themis by stealing Hades's subjects ), Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes, who had fashioned the bolt for Zeus.

Twice I have been struck down with illness just as I was on the point of success.

He fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis, but the surviving details of his transgression vary: " the only certainty is in what Aktaion suffered, his pathos, and what Artemis did: the hunter became the hunted ; he was transformed into a stag, and his raging hounds, struck with a ' wolf's frenzy ' ( Lyssa ), tore him apart as they would a stag.

He had various coins with her portrait struck in her honor.

Whatever the truth behind this, the young king was forced to depend heavily on his Ptolemaic support and even struck portraits with the characteristic features of king Ptolemy I.

While he was in talks with Hastein, the Danes at Appledore broke out and struck northwestwards.

If the enemy struck from the sea, he would counter them with his own naval power.

Mosel noted that these radical changes, especially the invasion and defeat of Austria, and the occupation of Vienna intertwined with the personal losses that struck Salieri in the same period led to his withdrawal from operatic work.

Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning, Washington Post photographer Carol Guzy was detained by police and arrested on April 15, and two journalists for the Associated Press also reported being struck by police with batons.

When the Olympian shakes the aegis, Mount Ida is wrapped in clouds, the thunder rolls and men are struck down with fear.

The album struck a much darker note, leaning more towards downtempo, acoustic soft-rock songs, with more mature ( yet still optimistic ) lyrics.

Artemis was furious and killed Chione with her arrow or struck her dumb by shooting off her tongue.

Hera struck Artemis on the ears with her own quiver, causing the arrows to fall out.

At first selling slowly, it rapidly became a lasting success, and its appeal to English musicians had helped to make it widely known before World War I, when its themes struck a powerful chord with English readers.

Nicias struck Indian silver drachms of diademed or helmeted king with three reverses:

Polyxenos, whose portraits depict a diademed young man, struck silver coins which closely resemble those of Strato I.

George appears greatly struck by the portrait, unbeknownst to Robert ( who credits the unfavorable reaction to that evening's storm ).

* 2011: Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti of The Washington Post, " For their up-close portrait of grief and desperation after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti.

This abandonment led him to paint Death and the Maiden, where Wally's portrait is based on a previous pairing, but Schiele's is newly struck.

He was dismissed from the Privy Council ; his portrait was removed from the hall of Trinity College ; the Merchant Guild of Dublin struck his name off their rolls.

Partly because of its stark honesty about the pain that this kind of struggle causes a family, and partly because of its refreshingly revealing portrait of a brilliant young man ( he discovered a new way to liquefy ammonia ) struck down too young by incurable illness, Death Be Not Proud became a best-selling book that is still popular today.

A medal, or medallion, is strictly speaking a small, flat and round or oval, piece of metal that has been sculpted, molded, cast, struck, stamped, or some way marked with an insignia, portrait, or other artistic rendering.

On a Tetradrachma of Athens, struck c. 490 BC, the head of Athena, ( left ), is regarded as the obverse because of its larger scale and because it is a portrait head ; the entire owl is depicted in a smaller scale on the reverse

Very few examples were struck before he abdicated later that year, but none bearing this portrait ever were issued officially.

* Had various coins with her portrait struck in her honor.

Antonio is also struck by Angellica's portrait and wonders out loud if he could get away with sleeping with Angellica and still marry Florinda.

Portions of the 2001 and 2006 issues were struck in cupro-nickel, and can be identified by the lack of the letter P under Queen Elizabeth's portrait, and their non-magnetic quality.

Most of Agathokleia's coins were struck jointly with her son Strato, though on their first issues, he is not featured on the portrait.

Zoilos I also struck rare gold-plated silver coins with portrait and Heracles.

Peucolaos struck rare Indian standard silver coins with portrait in diadem, and a reverse of a standing Zeus, which resemble the reverse of contemporary kings Heliokles II and Archebios.

Another ascertained fact concerning François Clouet is that in 1571 he was summoned to the office of the Court of the Mint, and his opinion was taken on the likeness to the king of a portrait struck by the mint.

The day after, on arriving at the house, she is struck by the resemblance between Alfred and a portrait of Miss Greenshaw's grandfather.