Evidence of the Romans in this area is that in 1947, workmen digging in Boothstown at discovered a hoard of over 550 bronze Roman coins dating between 259 AD and 278 AD.

The Ziwiye hoard is a treasure hoard containing gold, silver, and ivory objects, also including a few Luristan pieces, that was uncovered on the south shore of Lake Urmia in Ziwiyeh, Kurdistan Province, Iran, in 1947.

Maximilian Kaller ( 10 October 1880 – 7 July 1947 ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Ermland () in East Prussia from 1930 – 1947, however, de facto expelled since mid-August 1945 he served as special bishop for the homeland-expellees until his death.

Among his other films were Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), The Gunfighter ( 1950 ), Moby Dick ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), which brought to life the terrors of global nuclear war, The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), and Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), with Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role.

In 1947 two Roman Catholic retreats were founded nearby, the Congregation of the Servants of the Paraclete and the Handmaids of the Precious Blood.

** Roman Antiquities, VI, 1947.

* Cora Lutz, ( 1947 ), Musonius Rufus: The Roman Socrates.

Jozef Tiso ( Hungarian: Tisza József ; 13 October 1887 – 18 April 1947 ) was a Slovak Roman Catholic priest, politician of the Slovak People's Party.

It was a state within the Holy Roman Empire and retained statehood until 1947, when it became a district of North Rhine-Westphalia.

* St Josephine Bakhita ( 1869 – 1947 ), a black slave who worked as a nanny and later became a Roman Catholic saint

The bed-ridden Italian writer and mystic Maria Valtorta wrote The Book of Azariah based on " dictations " that she directly attributed to her guardian angel Azariah, discussing the Roman Missal used for Sunday Mass in 1946 and 1947.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Paisley, created in 1947, is centred upon the town's St Mirin's Cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of Paisley.

Martha Nussbaum ( née Craven, May 6, 1947 ) is an American philosopher with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy, feminism, and ethics, including animal rights.

Jerzy Popiełuszko (; September 14, 1947 – October 19, 1984 ) was a Roman Catholic priest from Poland, associated with the Solidarity union.

The finished bronze statue was installed in 1947, having been cast by the Roman Bronze Company of New York.

* Pearl Tyler-Ellis ( 1860 – 1947 )-At the age of 12, she converted to Roman Catholicism along with her mother.

Century of Fulfillment: The Roman Catholic Church in Southern California, 1840 – 1947.

Basil to found a co-educational Roman Catholic university in Houston " as soon as practicable after the War, if possible by 1947.

The town is known for its colonial architecture and for its churches, the largest of which is the main Roman Catholic church, begun in 1947.

Special Agent Gowen warned in 1947 that, due to Pavelić's record of opposing the Orthodox Church as well as Communism, his " contacts are so high and his present position is so compromising to the Vatican, that any extradition of the subject would be a staggering blow to the Roman Catholic Church ".

The change was made in 1932, in accordance with the fascist regime's appropriation of symbols from the Roman Empire, and was thus undone shortly after the war, in 1947.

Michael Joseph Curley ( October 12, 1879 – May 16, 1947 ) was an Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.

James Hugh Ryan ( December 15, 1886 – November 23, 1947 ) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

After the war, in about 1947, Rubbra became a Roman Catholic, writing a special mass in celebration.

Cornelius " Neil " Horan, sometimes referred to as The Grand Prix Priest or The Dancing Priest ( born 22 April 1947 ), is a laicized Irish Roman Catholic priest who is noted for his interference with the running of the 2003 British Grand Prix and the 2004 Summer Olympics men's marathon in order to promote his religious belief that the end of the world is near.

* 1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term " Cold War " to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The 1816 weight / value ratio and size system survived the debasement of silver in 1920, and the adoption of token coins of cupro-nickel in 1947.

In 1947, a new issue of silver coins was struck, with the 50 centavos and 1 peso in. 500 fineness and a new 5-peso coin in. 900 fineness.

Between 1947 and 1952, coins in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 Groschen ; and 1, 2, and 5 Schilling were introduced.

The 1 groschen was only struck in 1947, while the 20 groschen and 2 schilling coins were suspended from production in 1954 and 1952, respectively.

In 1947 silver was removed from all circulating British coinage in favour of cupronickel, but as it was felt to be inappropriate to strike Maundy coins in base metal, their fineness was restored to 0. 925.

Canadian coins, for example, were minted well into 1948 stamped " 1947 ", the new year's issue indicated by a small maple leaf in one corner.

The metal content was changed, as for all British silver coins, from 1947 to 75 % copper, 25 % nickel.

In 1947, Bruner published his classic study Value and Need as Organizing Factors in Perception in which poor and rich children were asked to estimate the size of coins or wooden disks the size of American pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and half-dollars.

In 1947, shortly after the communist party took power, older coins were withdrawn from circulation and a new coinage was introduced, consisting of zinc ½, 1, 2 and 5 lekë.

Old coins returned to the Royal Mint through the UK banking system will be redeemed for legal tender without time limits, but coins issued before 1947 have a higher value for their silver content than for their monetary value.

After partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, the Pakistani rupee came into existence, initially using Indian coins and Indian currency notes simply overstamped with the word " Pakistan ".

1 balboa coins were issued that year for the first time since 1947.

* Latin abbreviation used on British coins up to 1947, such as the British two shilling coin

In 1947, cupro-nickel 1 and 2 shillings replaced the silver coins.

The 1 and 2 shilling notes were replaced by new coins in 1947.

Examples include the Dodecanese union set ( twenty-three values released between 1947 and 1951 ), the Marshall Plan set ( six values, 1951 ), the National products set ( seven values, 1953 ), the ancient art series ( 1954 – 55, 1958 – 60 ), the ancient coins series ( 1959, 1963 ), the tourist publicity set ( seventeen values, 1961 ), the King Paul set ( ten values, 1964 ), the labors of Hercules set ( eleven values, 1970 ), the national costumes series ( 1972 – 74 ), the Homer's epics set ( fifteen values, 1983 ), the capitals of prefectures series ( 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994 ), the Greek dances set ( 2002 ) and the Greek islands series ( 2004, 2006 ).

In 1943, hexagonal, brass 2-franc coins were introduced, followed by round, brass coins worth 1, 2 and 5 francs, and silver 50-franc coins, between 1944 and 1947.

After the granting of independence to the Philippines in 1946, no coins were minted for the Philippine Republic until 1958, other than a small commemorative issue honoring General Douglas MacArthur in 1947 ( 50 centavos and one peso, minted in San Francisco ).

It was last minted in British India in 1918, but some princely states continued to issue the coins until their accession to India after 1947.