The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.

A family of five plans to go together either to the beach or to the mountains, and a coin is tossed to decide.

Athena ( Minerva ) is the subject of the $ 50 1915-S Panama-Pacific commemorative coin.

At 2. 5 troy oz ( 78 g ) gold, this is the largest ( by weight ) coin ever produced by the U. S. Mint.

Another recent example is the 60 Years of the Second Republic commemorative coin issued by Austria in 2005.

Athena is depicted in the obverse of the coin, representing the Austrian Republic.

The coin is about one inch in diameter.

This coin is said to have belonged to Fulvius Ursinus.

Jarry once wrote, expressing some of the bizarre logic of ' pataphysics, " If you let a coin fall and it falls, the next time it is just by an infinite coincidence that it will fall again the same way ; hundreds of other coins on other hands will follow this pattern in an infinitely unimaginable fashion ".

A coin by a contender for the imperial throne, Pacatianus, explicitly states " Year one thousand and first ", which is an indication that the citizens of the Empire had a sense of the beginning of a new era, a Saeculum Novum.

The chief coin type, a griffon, is identical with that of Teos ; the rich silver coinage is noted for the beauty and variety of its reverse types.

As one of the oldest and most popular world pastimes, coin collecting is now often referred to as the " King of Hobbies ".

Likewise, as with most collectibles, a coin collection does not produce income until it is sold, and may even incur costs ( for example, the cost of safe deposit box storage ) in the interim.

This is perhaps one of the most practical ways to collect a national currency since probably the majority of coin reference books and coin albums catalogue in the same manner.

* Composition collections: For some, the metallurgical composition of the coin itself is of interest.

Collecting counterfeits and forgeries is a controversial area because of the possibility that counterfeits might someday reenter the coin market as authentic coins, but US statutory and case law do not explicitly prohibit possession of counterfeit coins.

In coin collecting, the condition of a coin is paramount to its value ; a high-quality example is often worth many times more than a poor example.

While the Sheldon Scale is universally acknowledged, coin experts in Europe and elsewhere often shun the numerical system, preferring to rate specimens on a purely descriptive, or adjectival, scale.

When evaluating a coin, the following — often subjective — factors may be considered: 1 ) " eye appeal " or the aesthetic interest of the coin ; 2 ) dents on the rim ; 3 ) unsightly scratches or other blemishes on the surface of the coin ; 4 ) luster ; 5 ) toning ; 6 ) level of detail retained, where a coin with full details obviously is valued higher than one with worn details.

The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, soleil levant ( Impression, Sunrise ), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari.

Private mints have also attempted to capitalize off the popularity of the Krugerrand, minting gold and silver bullion rounds ( the term coin denotes legal currency ) in the style of the Krugerrand.

The 1935 Indian Head nickel | Buffalo nickel – this style of coin featuring an American bison was produced from 1913 to 1938.

Even if their style was close to the Roman originals, Visigothic coins contained less precious metal ; it was probably for this reason that Majorian issued a law obliging the tax collectors to accept golden coins at their nominal value, with the exception of the " Gallic " coin, of lesser value.

This characteristic can clearly be attributed to the influence of Saint Augustine, as Orosius is showing us the two sides of a coin in the purest style of Augustinian dualism.

Although Venom's Black Metal, released in 1982, was the first record to coin the term, it was Bathory's early albums, featuring Satanic lyrics, low-fi production and an inhuman vocal style, that defined the genre.

Senior have shown, by difference in coin findings, style and monograms, that there were indeed two distinct rulers.

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The coin is considered to be part of the British coinage because it has no indication of what country it was minted for, being made in the same style as the contemporary half-farthing which was legal tender in Britain from 13 June 1842 to 1869.

While the Tealby coinage was acceptable in terms of weight and silver quality, the overall quality of production was dreadful, so in 1180 a new style of coin, the short-cross penny was introduced.

The new coins also contained a privy mark, small differences such as a rose on the king's breast, differences in the king's hair style, or an alteration in the size of the king's eyes, or the style of a letter — these differences were not caused by carelessness but to enable identification of the moneyer who produced the coin, in place of giving the moneyer's name.

The obverse side of the coin shows a portrait of Queen Victoria wearing a veil, with the inscription ""&# 160 ; ( Victoria-By the grace of God ), while the reverse side shows four cruciform-crowned shields bearing the emblems of England ( x2 ), Scotland, and Ireland, with sceptres between the shields, in the style of Charles II's gold coins designed by John Roettiers ; the inscription on the reverse reads, "".

The coin is considered to be part of the British coinage because it has no indication of what country it was minted for, being made in the same style as the other contemporary coins of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The credit for the design of the gold coinage of this reign is usually given to James and Norbert Roettier, but the 1689 coin bears somewhat caricatured heads of the monarchs, and it is thought that this is in the style of George Bower ( d. 1689 / 90 ), an artist who designed the first type of penny and halfpenny of 1689 and also produced a number of medals with grotesque and cartoon-like busts.

Silver coin of Chandragupta II, minted in his Western territories, in the style of the Western Satraps. Obv: Bust of king, with corrupted Greek legend " OOIHU ". Rev: Legend in Brahmi, " Chandragupta Vikramaditya, King of Kings, and a devotee of Vishnu ", around a peacock.

Several busts of the king were used for this denomination, who is shown looking to the right of the coin and is holding the orb and sceptre ; the style of the king's beard varies during the issue.

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The decision of the Royal Mint to omit reference to the phrase ( and other parts of the monarch's style ) from the pre-decimal British so called " Godless Florin " in 1849, caused such a scandal that the coin was replaced.

Barbarous radiates are imitations of the antoninianus, a type of coin issued during the Roman Empire, which are so named due to their crude style and prominent radiate crown worn by the emperor.

The XFL, a short-lived American football league, attempted to avoid coin tosses by implementing a face-off style " opening scramble ," in which one player from each team tried to recover a loose football ; the team whose player recovered the ball got first choice.