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chief and coin
The chief coin type, with griffon.
In the United States, the US mint established a coin Cabinet in 1838 when chief coiner Adam Eckfeldt donated his personal collection.
By 1825 "... the Spanish dollar, the universal coin of three centuries, had lost its supremacy, and ... its universal dominion was in process of disintegration into rival ' currency areas ', chief among which was destined to be the area dominated by British sterling.
It is especially the chief silver coin of the Hebrews.
The two remained in power during the remainder of the reign of George I the chief domestic events of the time being the impeachment of Bishop Atterbury, the pardon and partial restoration of Lord Bolingbroke, and the troubles in Ireland caused by the patent permitting Wood to coin halfpence.
In the beginning, hammered coinage or cast coinage were the chief means of coin minting, with resulting production runs numbering as little as the hundreds or thousands.
A silver coin, the akçe () was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire.
The coin was designed by William Barber, the mint's chief engraver.

chief and type
Leaf size is the chief criterion for the classification of tea plants, with three primary classifications being: Assam type, characterized by the largest leaves ; China type, characterized by the smallest leaves ; and Cambod, characterized by leaves of intermediate size.
The chariot is a type of horse carriage used in both peace and war as the chief vehicle of many ancient peoples.
In a 2003 editorial, CNET News. com's chief political correspondent, Declan McCullagh, speculated that, soon, every object that is purchased, and perhaps ID cards, will have RFID devices in them, which would respond with information about people as they walk past scanners ( what type of phone they have, what type of shoes they have on, which books they are carrying, what credit cards or membership cards they have, etc .).
Exhumations led to the discovery not only of the charred bodies of the victims in two mass graves, but also of the bust of Lenin ( previously assumed to be buried at a Jewish cemetery ) as well as bullets that according to a 2000 statement by Leon Kieres, the chief of the IPN, could have been fired from 1941 Walther P38 type pistols.
After refusing to marry the chief the Opata tied the woman to the silver, cut her hands and rubbed a type of poison into her wounds.
This type of government is a “ strong mayor ” form in which the Mayor, as chief executive, is responsible for all administrative functions.
She continues to supply the chief type even during imperial times, being generally shown seated with the tympanum in her hand.
It was Manutius ' ambition to secure the literature of Greece from further loss by committing its chief masterpieces to type.
As General Walter Bedell Smith, chief of staff to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War II, pointed out, General Eisenhower and many of his staff officers, products of these academies, " were imbued with the idea of this type of wide, bold maneuver for decisive results.
Outstanding literary figures of the Hellenistic period were Menander, the chief representative of a newer type of comedy ; the poets Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius Rhodius, author of the Argonautica ; and Polybius, who wrote a detailed history of the Mediterranean world.
This type of caretaker government is adopted in Bangladesh where an advisor council led by the former chief judge rules the country for three months before an elected government takes over.
The conservative, to be sure, speaks for a special type of victim: one who has lost something of value, as opposed to the wretched of the Earth, whose chief complaint is that they never had anything to lose.
Kushks ( Persian, Kushk, " pavilion ", " kiosk "), which comprise the chief remains of Abbasid Merv, are a building type unique to Central Asia during this period.
Metcalf has often appeared against type in both film and television ; in JFK, she played a dramatic role as one of Jim Garrison's chief investigators.
As early as the building of Constantine's churches in Palestine there were two chief types of plan in use: the basilican, or axial, type, represented by the basilica at the Holy Sepulchre, and the circular, or central, type, represented by the great octagonal church once at Antioch.
A study published in April 2007 by the CPP's chief actuary showed that this type of funding method is " robust and appropriate " given reasonable assumptions about future conditions.
Two days later, the British prime minister, Winston Churchill sent a memo to his chief staff officer, General Hastings Ismay, asking him to begin planning an operation for a raid on the islands as soon as possible and stating that he felt that it would be the type of operations that the newly formed Commandos would be suited for.
but Scottish heraldry does use ' tierced in pale ' ( e. g. Clackmannan county ( now Clackmannanshire ) has Or ; a saltire gules ; a chief tierced in pale vert, argent, vert ...) A particular type of tiercing, resembling a Y in shape ( division lines per bend and bend sinister coming down from the chief, meeting at the fess point, and continuing down per pale ), is called per pall ( also per pairle ).
In business, the executive officers are the top officers of a corporation, the chief executive officer ( CEO ) being the best-known type.

chief and is
A chief characteristic of experience in the mode of causal efficacy is one of derivation from the past.
Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.
His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.
Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.
It is the chief merit in Copernicus' work that all his planetary calculations are interdependent.
Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
Next to it is a copper section, with cooking utensils and a figure of the chief cook in an elaborate, floor-length robe.
The chief experience is the sensing of communion, and in the higher religions, of a harmonious relationship with the supernatural power.
As Loomis remarks, `` In the internal pattern the chief reason for interacting is to communicate liking, friendship, and love among those who stand in supporting relations to one another and corresponding negative sentiments to those who stand in antagonistic relations ''.
`` Unfortunately '', says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court ''.
This serious condition, popularly known as pyorrhea, is one of the chief causes of tooth loss in adults.
One of the chief features of this community of interest is the automotive patents cross-licensing agreement, a milestone in the development of American industrial cooperation.
Jerome Leavitt, a partner in the Union Liquor company, 3247 S. Kedzie Av., Dominic Senese, a teamster union slugger who is a buddy of Stein and a cousin of Tony Accardo, onetime gang chief ; ;
They know it is the chief ingredient in gallstones.
Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.
His chief motivation for enrolling at Hanford is the desire to '' --
The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.
An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.
Odin is the chief of Asagarth.
In 1541, he received Bayreuth as his share of the family lands, but, as the chief town of his principality was Kulmbach, he is sometimes referred to as the Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.
) where each of them is declared to be the chief in some quality, Ānanda is mentioned five times ( more often than any other ).

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