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.

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.

The coin was minted in 60 million copies, and circulated as regular currency. From this point in time, we can distinguish quite clearly between two classes of commemorative coins.

During the Middle Ages the ducat gained much popularity, as it was easy to mint, and packed quite a value in one relatively small coin.

According to GameSpot, the game had " gorgeous graphics and special effects " and " was quite an adventure and one hell of a coin cruncher.

Lying far from the empire's center, Xinjiang was somewhat loosely governed by the court, and this is reflected in the great variety of coin types produced, some of them quite innovative.

Circulation of the 200 escudo coin is not quite as widespread as the other denominations but they are still commonly distributed and accepted alongside the 200 escudo note.

Barber wrote to Preston, " Upon examination it was found that the relief of the models was so great that it would be a waste of time to make reductions for coinage, as it would be quite impossible to coin when the dies are made.

Their name for brass was orichalcum, a word sometimes also spelled aurichalcum ( echoing the word for a gold coin, aureus ), meaning ' gold-copper ', because of its shiny, gold-like appearance when the coins were newly struck ( see, for example Pliny the Elder in his Natural History Book 34. 4 ).

A human venturing into aarakocra territory may be able to convince one to serve as a guide or a scout in exchange for a shiny jewel or coin.

A magician will first grab attention with a coin, or another small and shiny object A shiny object captures more attention and seems less likely to disappear or to be manipulated.

Princeton's protest, one account said, went for naught when the referee ' tossed a coin to make his decision and allowed the touchdown to stand ' ".

Therefore, it is equally likely to flip 21 heads as it is to flip 20 heads and then 1 tail when flipping a fair coin 21 times.

They are named this because when a passenger needs to be let off they use their coin money to tap the side of the vehicle and the driver usually stops.

The entropy is maximized at 1 bit per trial when the two possible outcomes are equally probable, as in an unbiased coin toss.

Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 50s, when it helped to coin the term " cartoon " in its modern sense as a humorous illustration.

" She also interpreted the ending by writing, " Many readers have puzzled over the ending of Ubik, when Glen Runciter finds a Joe Chip coin in his pocket.

Usually, intention precedes control, as when you see a coin on the ground and reach down to pick it up.

Another common type of phonograph parlor featured a machine that would start or would be windable when a coin would be inserted.

Having coins also helps players when their kart is hit by another: instead of spinning and losing control, they lose a coin.

The hopper is a mechanical device that rotates coins into the coin tray when a player collects credits / coins ( by pressing a " Cash Out " button ).

The silver collector coin that pays homage to Urho Kekkonen, the longest-serving Finnish president, was issued in 1981, when he had served 25 years as the president.

In the United States, the US mint established a coin Cabinet in 1838 when chief coiner Adam Eckfeldt donated his personal collection.

The circulating coins, excepting the two-pound coin, were redesigned in 2008, keeping the sizes and compositions unchanged, but introducing reverse designs that each depict a part of the Royal Shield of Arms and form the whole shield when they are placed together in the appropriate arrangement.

However, if the laser brightness is reduced until only a handful of photons hit the wall every second, the relative fluctuations in number of photons, i. e., brightness, will be significant, just as when tossing a coin a few times.

Let be the probability that a certain coin lands heads up ( H ) when tossed.

The siege is notable also for being the first instance in Europe of the issuance of paper money, with paper taken from prayer books being stamped using coin dies when silver ran out.

A brilliant actor and mimic ( or so we are told, by Smith himself ), he is down to his last coin when a spaceman hires him to double for a public figure.

The idea of a coin toss came from Phipps, the owner of Bold Ruler, and " Bull " Hancock of Claiborne Farms as a way to get the very best mares for Bold Ruler, and when the toss went their way, to add well-bred fillies to their own broodmare band.

According to economist Frank Knight, it is different from risk, where there is a specific probability assigned to each outcome ( as when flipping a fair coin ).

* The first vending machine was also one of his constructions, when a coin was introduced via a slot on the top of the machine, a set amount of holy water was dispensed.

Examples of such stories are Of Ducks and Dimes and Destinies, when she travels in time to steal the dime in the very same day Scrooge earns it and gives it back after realizing that by preventing Scrooge from owning the dime, she would turn it into a coin that never belonged to him, or A Little Something Special, when she teams up with Flintheart Glomgold and the Beagle Boys in a plan made by Blackheart Beagle.

Notable is the fact that Flintheart Glomgold's first coin could never be a rand because the South Africans utilized the South African pound from 1825 to 1961, when the South African Rand was introduced.

He finally retrieves the coin and nonchalantly pays the waiter only to be thunderstruck when the waiter reveals the coin to be fake.