The Basilica Aemilia in the Roman Forum did burn down, which perhaps can be attributed to Alaric: the archaeological evidence was provided by coins dating from 410 found melted in the floor.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Coins reflect the events of the time in which they are produced, so coins issued during historically important periods are especially interesting to collectors.

Dealers that sponsor infomercials on shortwave radio are notorious for such sales pitches, most notably Discount Gold & Silver Trading on WWCR, which proclaims graded coins, in direct contradiction to their pricing history, as having appreciated more than non-graded coins, or as not likewise being " opinion coins.

These are usually the coins and banknotes of a particular government, which comprise the physical aspects of a nation's money supply.

Wherever the player goes before entering the dungeon, there is always a town which offers the basic services of a temple for healing and curing curses, a junk store where anything can be sold for a few copper coins, a sage who can identify items and ( from the second town onwards ) a bank for storing the total capacity of coins to lighten the player's load.

The United States Mint operated a branch mint in Carson City between the years 1870 and 1893, which struck gold and silver coins.

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.

Though there is little evidence supporting Aksumite control of the region at that time, his title, which includes king of Saba and Salhen, Himyar and Dhu-Raydan ( all in modern-day Yemen ), along with gold Aksumite coins with the inscriptions, " king of the Habshat " or " Habashite ," indicate that Aksum might have retained some legal or actual footing in the area.

Simple examples are vending machines which dispense products when the proper combination of coins are deposited, elevators which drop riders off at upper floors before going down, traffic lights which change sequence when cars are waiting, and combination locks which require the input of combination numbers in the proper order.

Gold has been widely used throughout the world as a vehicle for monetary exchange, either by issuance and recognition of gold coins or other bare metal quantities, or through gold-convertible paper instruments by establishing gold standards in which the total value of issued money is represented in a store of gold reserves.

An uneasy peace ensued, during which Carausius issued coins proclaiming his legitimacy and inviting official recognition.

In June 2012, two metal detectorists announced that they had uncovered what could be Europe's largest hoard of Iron Age Celtic coins, and which may be worth up to £ 10 M, after a search spanning 30 years.

It is thought that hoards of coins may have been buried in the island so as to protect them from Julius Caesar's armies which were advancing through France.

He was granted further honors, which were later used to justify his assassination as a would-be divine monarch ; coins were issued bearing his image and his statue was placed next to those of the kings.

It was usual at the time for the king to collect taxes in silver, which was then re-minted into new coins ; these coins would then be put in barrels and sent to royal castles around the country, to be used to hire mercenaries or to meet other costs.

At those times when John was preparing for campaigns in Normandy, for example, huge quantities of silver had to be withdrawn from the economy and stored for months, which unintentionally resulted in periods during which silver coins were simply hard to come by, commercial credit difficult to acquire and deflationary pressure placed on the economy.

We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.

As an example, on the Wheel of Fortune reel machine ( based on the popular Wheel of Fortune TV game show created by Merv Griffin ), the player must play 3 coins per spin to be eligible to trigger the bonus round and possibly win the jackpot.

* Emperor Temmu of Japan decrees that copper coins must be used instead of silver coins.

If the player loses all of Mario's lives, all of the 6 Coins are returned to the bosses, which must be defeated again to retrieve the coins.

The earliest of the coins are before 500 BC ; however, the writing system must have required even more time for its development and implementation.

His very first coins are very similar to the heavy coinage of Offa's last three years, and since the mints at Canterbury and in East Anglia were under the control of Eadbert Praen and Eadwald respectively, these earliest pennies must be the product of the London mint.

Stars can also be stolen from other players by passing a certain location on the board where a Boo resides — the player must then pay Boo 50 coins for the service of him stealing stars ; coin stealing is free.

** the competitive free-for-alls, in which players must compete against each other in order to win a limited number of coins

The minigames in Mario Party 4 are short, unrelated events with a specified objective that the players must attempt to meet to earn coins as a reward.

The Bank space gives players who land on it all deposits made in the Koopa Bank by others, who must deposit a minimum of 5 coins ( 1-4 coins if they have less than 5 coins ) if they pass the space.

One exception however occurs on Bowser's board, where the rules are reversed: players passing the bank get 5 coins while the player landing on the " Bank " space must pay back the total balance.

Cunningham in 1873 argued the coins must have been the result of overland trade from China, through India to Greece – highly controversial at the time and much derided.

Worth noting here is that the amount of coins found at Qumran suggests according to numismatic principles of loss and survival of ancient coins that millions of bronze coins must have circulated at Qumran.

The game also features a subquest ( albeit one essential to completing the game ) in which thirty gold coins must be collected.

There is, however, no federal statute that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and / or services.

The Deputy Master of the Mint must, throughout the year, randomly select several thousand sample coins and place them aside for the Trial.

These must be in a certain fixed proportion to the number of coins produced.

For example, for every 5, 000 bimetallic coins issued, one must be set aside, but for silver Maundy money the proportion is one in 150.

Once on a planet, the user can exit the bus, where a strange satellite called the " whatsit " must be clicked on to bring up an arcade-styled game in which the user, controlling one of the students, must collect one of Ms. Frizzle's tokens ( giant coins with Ms. Frizzle's face on them ) which provide the user with a clue as to the Friz's whereabouts and activate the " Friz-finder.

Of its coins the most ancient bear the Phoenician inscription abdrt with the head of Melkart and a tunny-fish ; those of Tiberius ( who seems to have made the place a colonia ) show the chief temple of the town with two tunny-fish erect in the form of columns.

In recent years the largest of the trees, Kirk's " Minister's Pine ", has been damaged by vandals who have hammered coins into the bark.

People have hoarded coins for their bullion value for as long as coins have been minted.

Typically they purchase coins that are composed of rare or precious metals, or coins that have a high purity of a specific metal.

* Volume collections ( Hoards ): Collectors may have an interest in acquiring large volumes of a particular coins ( e. g., as many pennies as they can store ).

Collectors have created systems to describe the overall condition of coins.

Contacts with the distant Roman Empire are evidenced by the fact that Roman coins have been found at archeological sites dating from the 2nd and 3rd centuries.

Now we have copper coins and other non-precious metals as coins.

For example, Panama and El Salvador have declared U. S. currency to be legal tender, and from 1791 – 1857, Spanish silver coins were legal tender in the United States.

At various times countries have either re-stamped foreign coins, or used currency board issuing one note of currency for each note of a foreign government held, as Ecuador currently does.

Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and chocolate hearts or chocolate in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine's Day.

The American Gold Eagle has a face value of US $ 50, and the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf coins also have nominal ( purely symbolic ) face values ( e. g., C $ 50 for 1 oz.

Historically, a great number of coinage metals ( including alloys ) and other materials ( e. g. Porcelain ) have been used practically, artistically, and experimentally in the production of coins for circulation, collection, and metal investment, where bullion coins often serve as more convenient stores of assured metal quantity and purity than other bullion.

Some have suggested that such coins not be considered to be " true coins " ( see below ).

Coins may be minted that have fiat values lower than the value of their component metals, but this is never done intentionally and initially for circulation coins, and happens only in due course later in the history of coin production due to inflation, as market values for the metal overtake the fiat declared face value of the coin.

Opponents of the Lydia scenario point to the fact that coins of that era have been totally absent from archeological finds in Sardis, capital of Lydia.

Electrum coins were not standardized in weight and are considered by opponents as badges, medals or ceremonial objects issued by priests, rather than coins ( actually the oldest of them have been discovered not in Lydia, but in an ancient Greek temple of Ephesos, a city colony built by the ancient Greeks in what is now Turkey ).