This was the first $ 50 coin issued by the U. S. Mint and no higher was produced until the production of the $ 100 platinum coins in 1997.

This coin was struck by Alexios during his war against Robert Guiscard.

The thermosetting phenolic resin was at one point considered for the manufacture of coins, due to a shortage of traditional material ; in 1943, Bakelite and other non-metal materials were tested for usage for the one cent coin in the US before the Mint settled on zinc-coated steel.

The first international convention for coin collectors was held 15 – 18 August 1962, in Detroit, Michigan, and was sponsored by the American Numismatic Association and the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association.

This was more common on older coins because the coin dies were hand carved.

By the mid 20th century, with the growing market for rare coins, the Sheldon system was adopted by the American Numismatic Association and most coin professionals in the North America.

A five-centime coin was known as a sou, i. e. a solidus or shilling.

This was to assure the individual taking the coin that he was getting a certain known weight of precious metal.

The Pilier des nautes links him with sailors and with commerce, suggesting that he was also associated with material wealth as does the coin pouch from the Cernunnos of Rheims ( Marne, Champagne, France )— in antiquity, Durocortorum, the civitas capital of the Remi tribe — and the stag vomiting coins from Niedercorn-Turbelslach ( Luxembourg ) in the lands of the Treveri.

Shortly following his accession as Emperor, Domitian bestowed the honorific title of Augusta upon Domitia, while their son was deified, appearing as such on the reverse of coin types from this period.

The reverse depicts the Roman goddess Minerva, who was Domitian's favoured deity, and appeared on numerous coin types throughout his reign.

This was contained within a large box, and only permitted the images to be viewed by one person at a time looking into it through a peephole, after starting the machine by inserting a coin.

Hercules was on the coin of the Republic.

Also the language on the coin with Hercules was far different than the rhetoric of pre-revolutionary depictions.

In the New Testament period, the only golden coin, the aureus, was worth approximately 3, 200 of the smallest bronze coin, the lepton ( translated into Latin as minuti ); while the Roman standard silver coin, the denarius, was worth 128 leptons.

Cleveland and Treasury Secretary Daniel Manning stood firmly on the side of the gold standard, and tried to reduce the amount of silver that the government was required to coin under the Bland-Allison Act of 1878.

The question was, " Ronni flipped a coin three times and in all cases heads came up.

German 10 DM commemorative coin issued by the Federal Republic of Germany ( 1998 ) designed by Carl Vezerfi-Clemm on the 900th anniversary of Hildegard of Bingen's birth

The image was designed by Coert Steynberg, and was previously used on the reverse of the earlier South African five shilling coin.

* Indian Head eagle, coin designed by Roosevelt

Under the direction of Dr. Hieu C. Truong, the RCM engineering division designed the two dollar coin to be made from two different metals.

The designs of the artists who made the first coin punches were stylized with a degree of skill that could not be mistaken for common handiwork — salient and very specific types designed to be reproduced ad infinitum.

Each coin is designed by a different designer, from the 1 cent to the 2 euro coin they are: Eugenio Driutti, Luciana De Simoni, Ettore Lorenzo Frapiccini, Claudia Momoni, Maria Angela Cassol, Roberto Mauri, Laura Cretara and Maria Carmela Colaneri.

In many cities, all parking meters are designed to use only one type of coin.

While the deposit systems usually are designed to accommodate a certain size of domestic coin, foreign coins, former currencies ( like DM coins ) or even appropriately folded pieces of cardboard can be used to unlock the trolleys as well.

It was a milled gold coin weighing 9. 0 – 9. 1 grams, with a diameter of 29 or 30 millimetres, designed by Thomas Simon ( also called Symonds ).

The original reverse of the coin, designed by William Gardner, is a crowned Tudor Rose, with the numeral " 20 " below the rose, the year, and above the rose.

The current reverse of the coin was designed by Matthew Dent who in April 2008 won a Royal Mint competition to redesign the reverses of all circulating coins ( except the £ 2 coin ).

The original reverse of the coin, designed by Christopher Ironside, depicted a seated Britannia alongside a lion, accompanied by either ( 1969-1982 ) or above Britannia, with the numeral 50 underneath the seated figure.

The original reverse of the coin, designed by Christopher Ironside, is a crowned thistle ( formally, The Badge of Scotland, a thistle royally crowned ), with the numeral " 5 " below the thistle, and either ( 1968 – 1981 ) or ( 1982 – 2008 ) above the thistle.

The original reverse of the coin, designed by Christopher Ironside, is a crowned lion ( formally, Part of the crest of England, a lion passant guardant royally crowned ), with the numeral " 10 " below the lion, and either ( 1968 – 1981 ) or ( 1982 – 2008 ) above the lion.

The original reverse of the coin, designed by Christopher Ironside, is the Badge of the Prince of Wales: a plume of ostrich feathers within a coronet, above the German motto (" I serve ").

The reverse of the coin, designed by Christopher Ironside, was simply a crown, with the fraction " ½ " below the crown, and either ( 1971 – 1981 ) or ( 1982 – 1984 ) above the crown.

The reverse of the regular-issue coin, designed by Bruce Rushin, bears a concentric design symbolically representing technological development from the Iron Age, through the Industrial Revolution and the Electronic Age to the Internet, with the inscription above the design and the date below.

He also designed the conjoint portrait of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on the 2007 crown coin, celebrating their sixtieth wedding anniversary.

It is the third time Ian Rank-Broadley has designed both the obverse and reverse of a single coin.

10 DM commemorative coin issued by the Federal Republic of Germany ( 1988 ) designed by Carl Vezerfi-Clemm on the 100th anniversary of Carl Zeiss's death

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, "".

Hence, milled edges were originally designed and intended to show that none of the metal had been shaved off the coin.

The obverse and reverse of this coin were designed by John Roettier ( 1631 – c. 1700 ).

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.

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.

In the simplest competition, singles, one of the two opponents flips a coin to see who wins the " mat " and begins a segment of the competition ( in bowling parlance, an " end "), by placing the mat and rolling the jack to the other end of the green to serve as a target.

* American Buffalo ( coin ), a one-ounce 24-karat gold bullion coin introduced by the United States Mint on 22 June 2006

Casual coin collectors often begin the hobby by saving notable coins found by chance.

* It is a normal number, which means that its digits are equidistributed as if they were generated by tossing a fair coin.

Coins have long been linked to the concept of money, as reflected by the fact that in some other languages the words " coin " and " currency " are synonymous.

In terms of its value as a collector's item, a coin is generally made more or less valuable by its condition, specific historical significance, rarity, quality / beauty of the design and general popularity with collectors.

This means that the value of the coin is decreed by government fiat ( law ), and thus is determined by the free market only inasmuch as national currencies are subjected to various types of foreign exchange markets in international trade.

A coin, by definition, is an object used to facilitate commerce and exchanges.

Payment on these machines is accepted by debit card / credit card, or cash via coin slot and bank note scanner.

A coin minted by P. Accoleius Lariscolus in 43 BC has been acknowledged as representing the archaic statue of Diana Nemorensis.

This practice could be sustained only by requisitioning precious metals from private citizens in exchange for state-minted coin ( of a far lower value than the price of the precious metals requisitioned ).

Thus, churches actually had money-changing tables at which each coin would be examined separately and a token of actual worth given to the layperson so that he or she could be seen by the other parishioners as putting money in the basket during that part of the service.