: Pantalone: Zanni, I want you to earn yourself a sovereign.

The Zanni at first wore a full faced carnival mask, but because of the need for dialogue between Pantalone and the Zanni, the bottom of the mask was hinged and eventually cut away altogether.

: Pantalone: Zanni, wake up you animal and come here.

: Pantalone: Dear Zanni, take the sonnet.

: Pantalone: I will give it to you.

: Pantalone: It's there.

: Pantalone: There it is.

: Pantalone: It's yours.

: Pantalone: Trust me, my dear Zanni ; take the sonnet and I will give it to you.

The earliest literary evidence portrays Zanni as a servant of Pantalone.

In “ Lazzi of Counting Money ”, the Zanni divides Pantalone ’ s money between Pantolone and himself in the following way: “ One for Pantalone, two for me ( gives one coin to Pantalone and two to himself ); two for Pantalone, three for me ( gives one coin to Pantalone and three to himself ), etc.

She was also known to wear heavy makeup around her eyes and carry a tambourine which she could use to fend off the amorous advances of Pantalone.

Columbina aided her mistress, the innamorata, to gain the affections of her one true love by manipulating Arlecchino and counter-plotting against Pantalone while simultaneously managing the whereabouts of the innamorato.

Pasquale is recognizable as the blustery Pantalone, Ernesto as the lovesick Pierrot, Malatesta as the scheming Scapino, and Norina as a wily Columbina.

Ruffiana is most often romantically involved with Pantalone, though his love may easily be unrequited if it suits the plot.

The Lovers are usually the children of either Dottore or Pantalone.

The primary members of this group are Pantalone, Il Dottore and Il Capitano.

Pantalone and Il Dottore are the alter ego of each other, Pantalone being the decadent wealthy merchant, and Il Dottore being the decadent erudite.

Pantalone, or Pantalone de ' bisognosi, Italian for ' Pantalone of the needy ', is one of the most important principal characters found in commedia del arte.

Modern bullion coins for investment or collector purposes do not require good mechanical wear properties ; they are typically fine gold at 24k, although the American Gold Eagle and the British gold sovereign continue to be minted in 22k metal in historical tradition.

From then on, he ordered prayers in all the mosques of Syria and Egypt as the sovereign king and he issued at the Cairo mint gold coins bearing his official title — al-Malik an-Nasir Yusuf Ayyub, ala ghaya " the King Strong to Aid, Joseph son of Job ; exalted be the standard.

Other mementos of Holmes's cases are a gold sovereign from Irene Adler (" A Scandal in Bohemia ") and an autographed letter of thanks from the French President and a Legion of Honour for tracking down an assassin named Huret (" The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez ").

However, only in 1821, following the introduction of the gold sovereign coin by the new Royal Mint at Tower Hill in the year 1816, was the United Kingdom formally put on a gold specie standard, the first of the great industrial powers to do so.

* A gold coin equal to one pound sterling, called a sovereign, is issued for Henry VII of England.

Twelve years of campaigning on the Galician frontier were concluded in 1143 by the Treaty of Zamora, in which Afonso was recognized as independent of any other Iberian sovereign, although he promised to be a faithful vassal of the Pope and to pay him a yearly tribute of four ounces of gold.

Until 1993, all these years use the Pistrucci reverse except for 1986 which used a gold version of the circulating Two Pound coin, and 1989 when a completely new design was used to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the first issue of the sovereign coin-the obverse shows the Queen seated on the coronation throne holding the orb and sceptre, with the legend, while the reverse shows a crowned shield within a double rose and the legend.

The sovereign is a gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.

Named after the English gold sovereign, last minted in 1604, the name was revived with the Great Recoinage of 1816.

In 2009, The Royal Mint released a new coin in the sovereign series: the quarter-sovereign, similar in some ways to the original gold English crown of the rose.

The initial reverse type for gold coins was the shield and crown motif, supplemented on the sovereign with a heraldic wreath.

It is estimated that in circulation a sovereign could have a lifespan of up to 15 years before it fell below the " least current weight ", that is, the minimum amount of gold below which it ceased to be legal tender.

To modern eyes the gold sovereign appears quite a small coin, but with a face value of £ 1 it had, in 1895, the same purchasing power as £ 150 in 2007.

Occasionally one comes across fake sovereign coins where the gold is replaced or alloyed with a substitute metal to look like gold.

The first phase was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 17 December 1968, and production gradually shifted to the new site over the next seven years until the last coin, a gold sovereign, was struck in London in November 1975.

The half sovereign is an English and British gold coin with a face value half that of a sovereign: equivalent to half a pound sterling, ten shillings, or 120 old pence.

The United Kingdom was now operating a very successful gold standard in relation to the gold sovereign that was introduced in 1816, and there was a desire to extend this system to the colonies.

The reality of the rating between the dollar and the pound was based on the silver content of the Spanish pieces of eight as compared to the gold content of the British gold sovereign.

The clouds parted and hard gashes of sunlight swooped down to stain the earth with streaks of white and gold light so that the shadows of the running horses flowed like dark streams over the dazzling snow.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

A million dollars' of gold a month.

He supervised the cleanups and handled the shipments of raw gold which each week went out to San Francisco.

gauche rainbow shapes replaced the poignant ovals of gold.

Opening these he brought out a schnapps bottle and small gold thimble-sized glasses hidden inside it.

There's $600 in gold in this chamois sack.

They inhabit a secret world centered on `` go codes '' and `` gold phones ''.

A system of `` gold '' -- actually yellow -- phones connects him with the offices and action stations of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the SAC commander and other key men.

All can be connected with the gold circuit from their homes.

Officers who participate in the continual practice drills assured me that the President's decision could be made and announced on the gold circuit within minutes after the first flash from Aj.

For these centers, too, are on the gold circuit.

In front of him is a gold phone.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

Lewis could let his eye caress The Prince's divan, covered with a rose-pink and silver Turkish cloth, or admire the lovely tapis, interwoven with gold, that spread across the floor.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

Though not actually crewel embroidery, it has that look with its over-stitched raised pattern in blue, pink, bronze and gold and a sauterne background.

Beebe tells of one private car that has gold plumbing.

When we got there, Trig and the Negro were quarreling over possession of a gold crucifix around the neck of a wounded Filipino.

In the room next to theirs was a huge cradle, of mahogany, ornately carved and decorated with gold leaf.

Just before reaching it I came to a grey and brown stone building that looks somewhat like an Oriental pagoda, with Arabic lettering in gold and colored tile decorations -- the Fountain of Sultan Ahmet.

They are made of gold and covered with emeralds, pearls and other jewels.

Taking the path behind the Throne Room to the building directly beyond it, the Portrait Gallery, I went right at the end of it, through a garden to a small building at the back -- a sitting room furnished with low blue divans, its floor covered with carpets, its ceiling painted with gold squares and floral designs.

An old shipwreck, a high dam, an old covered bridge, a place to find agates or other semi-precious stones or a place to pan gold, etcetera may be of interest.

In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.