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.

The new system consisted of five coins: the aureus / solidus, a gold coin weighing, like its predecessors, one-sixtieth of a pound ; the argenteus, a coin weighing one ninety-sixth of a pound and containing ninety-five percent pure silver ; the follis, sometimes referred to as the laureatus A, which is a copper coin with added silver struck at the rate of thirty-two to the pound ; the radiatus, a small copper coin struck at the rate of 108 to the pound, with no added silver ; and a coin known today as the laureatus B, a smaller copper coin struck at the rate of 192 to the pound.

Stubbs ' analysis, focusing on the disorder of the period, influenced his student John Round to coin the term " the Anarchy " to describe the period, a label that, whilst sometimes critiqued, continues to be used today.

Mechanical slot machines and their coin acceptors were sometimes susceptible to cheating devices and other scams.

the 500 yen coin was the highest-valued coin to be used regularly in the world ( depending on exchange rates, the rarely used 5 Cuban convertible peso coin is sometimes the highest-valued ), with value of over US $ 6.

The name złoty ( sometimes referred to as the florin ) was used for a number of different coins, including the 30 groszy coin called the polski złoty, the czerwony złoty ( Red złoty ) and the złoty reński ( the Rhine guilder ), which were in circulation at the time.

Contrary to church doctrine, during late Antiquity and the early medieval period the host was sometimes placed in the mouth of a person already dead, perhaps owing to traditional superstition that scholars have compared to the pre-Christian custom of Charon's obol, a small coin placed in the mouth of the dead for passage to the afterlife and sometimes called a viaticum in Latin literary sources.

A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person.

Coins minted at Cnossus from the fifth century showed the kneeling bull or the head of a goddess crowned with a wreath of grain and on the reverse — the " underside "— a scheme of four meander patterns joined at the centre windmill fashion, sometimes with sickle moons or with a star-rosette at the center: " it is a small view of the nocturnal world on the face of the coin that lay downward in the printing process, and is, as it were, oriented downward ".

The mill ( or sometimes, mil ) is a coin of account in the United States.

* It is sometimes claimed that British officers tossed a coin over whether they would go on a killing spree in Croke Park or loot Sackville Street ( Dublin's main street, now called O ' Connell Street ) instead: see, for example, Ernie O ' Malley, " Bloody Sunday ," Dublin's Fighting Story 1916 – 1921 ( Tralee: The Kerryman, 1949 ); but there is no evidence to support this claim.

This coin is roughly the same size as the Canadian dime and its American counterpart ; because the obverses of the 5p and the Canadian dime are nearly identical, and the monetary values are roughly equal, they sometimes can be found in circulation with dimes in Canada and parts of the Northern United States.

Vending machines could not distinguish between the two, so the 5p coin was sometimes fraudulently used for the 1 DM coin.

The amount of 10 roubles ( in either bill or coin ) is sometimes informally referred to as a chervonets.

Piggy bank ( sometimes penny bank or money box ) is the traditional name of a coin accumulation and storage receptacle ; it is most often, but not exclusively, used by children.

In Ireland the 1c coin is also sometimes known as a penny in reference to the Irish penny, worth of the Irish pound replaced by the euro in 2002.

The Canadian one dollar coin ( commonly called Loonie ) is a gold-coloured one-dollar coin introduced in 1987.

Dolphins captain Bob Kuechenberg called " tails ," and the coin came down " tails.

The Canadian 2 dollar coin, commonly called toonie, was introduced on February 19, 1996 by Public Works minister Diane Marleau.

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

Early in the 1st century BCE, they adopted the Greek and Roman practice of issuing coinage, adapting the widely imitated gold staters of Philip II of Macedon, in the characteristic Celtic coin metal alloy called billion.

The Xanthus Valley was the country called Tŗmmis in dynastic Lycia, from which the people were the Termilae or Tremilae, or Kragos in the coin inscriptions of Greek Lycia: Kr or Ksan Kr.

They pitched two sets of wickets, each with a " milk-white " bail perched on two stumps ; toss a coin for first knock, the umpire called " play " and the " leathern orb " was bowled.

The name " löser " most likely was derived from a large gold coin minted in Hamburg called the Portugalöser, worth 10 ducats.

In 1979, the Bulls lost a coin flip for the right to pick first in the NBA draft ( Rod Thorn, the Bulls General Manager, called " heads ").

Although it is often claimed that, as monarch, Irene called herself " basileus " ( βασιλεύς ), ' emperor ', rather than " basilissa " ( βασίλισσα ), ' empress ', in fact there are only three instances where it is known that she used the title " basileus ": two legal documents in which she signed herself as " Emperor of the Romans " and a gold coin of hers found in Sicily bearing the title of " basileus ".

In Tric-trac, the starting point is called a talon, the points, or fleches, are numbered to 12 on both sides of the board, with the 12th point on either side called the coin de repos, or, simply, coin.

Another aspect of US military history is the challenge coin, also called commanders coins, they are usually given as awards of recognition and achievement, and often lapel pins are also given as a recognition device of a military association or organization.

The problem of determining the process, given only a limited sample of the Bernoulli trials, may be called the problem of checking if a coin is fair.

The US 5-cent coin called nickel consists of 75 % copper and 25 % nickel and has a homogeneous composition.

The IP approach is called a private coin protocol by contrast.

The bills are called " treasury notes " or " coin notes " and are widely collected today because of their fine, detailed engraving.

During the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), the French introduced a coin worth two reales, it was called a peseta ( a little peso ) in Spanish, and soon the name was given to the Spanish two-real coin as well.

By 1728, the role of the old peso was assumed in Spain by the new two-real coin, now called a peseta.