The salt mines surrounding the Altaussee area, where American troops found 75 kilos of gold coins stored in a single mine, were used to store looted art, jewels, and currency ; vast quantities of looted art were found and returned to the owners.

Charon, also known as the ferry-man, would take the soul across the river to Hades, if the soul had gold: Upon burial, the family of the dead soul would put coins under the deceased's tongue.

Euro gold and silver commemorative coins ( Austria )# 2005 coinage | Euro coin commemorating 60 Years of the Second Republic of Austria, featuring Athena Promachos

Saint Anthony cast the pile of gold into a fire, and it vanished just like the silver coins did.

It is used for seawater service and also in Euro coins # Small-denomination coins ( Nordic gold ).

* Nordic gold, used in 10, 20 and 50 cts euro coins, contains 89 % copper, 5 % aluminium, 5 % zinc, and 1 % tin.

He found that material was scattered over an area in diameter, and in addition to military and nautical equipment recovered a large number of gold and silver coins from countries across the Mediterranean, some from the seventeenth century.

In most major economies using coinage, copper, silver and gold formed three tiers of coins.

Major nations established mints to print money and mint coins, and branches of their treasury to collect taxes and hold gold and silver stock.

By 1900, most of the industrializing nations were on some form of gold standard, with paper notes and silver coins constituting the circulating medium.

Image: Roman gold coins excavated in Pudukottai India one coin of Caligula 31 41 and two coins of Nero 54 68. jpg | Roman gold coins excavated in Pudukottai, India, examples of Indo-Roman trade during the period.

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

Exceptions to the rule of coin face-value being higher than content value, also occur for some bullion coins made of silver or gold ( and, rarely, other metals, such as platinum or palladium ), intended for collectors or investors in precious metals.

Examples of modern gold collector / investor coins include the American Gold Eagle minted by the United States, the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf minted by Canada, and the Krugerrand, minted by South Africa.

Bullion coins are also valued based on these factors, but are largely valued based on the value of the gold or silver in them.

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.

Etruscan coins were in gold, silver and bronze, the gold and silver usually having been struck on one side only.

When we got there, Trig and the Negro were quarreling over possession of a gold crucifix around the neck of a wounded Filipino.

In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of physicist Ernest Rutherford, bombarded a sheet of gold foil with alpha rays — by then known to be positively charged helium atoms — and discovered that a small percentage of these particles were deflected through much larger angles than was predicted using Thomson's proposal.

Historian Thomas Woods argues that the crashes were caused by various privately-owned banks with state charters that issued paper money, supposedly convertible to gold, in amounts greatly exceeding their gold reserves.

Native copper, however, was found worldwide, along with silver, gold and platinum, which were also used to make tools, jewelry, and other objects since Neolithic times.

Although Andean Amerindian peoples crafted ceremonial jewelry of gold and other metals the mineralizations of the Andes were first mined in large scale after the Spanish arrival.

To show their appreciation and affection, the Ismā ' īliyya weighed their Imam in gold, diamonds and, symbolically, in platinum, respectively, the proceeds of which were used to further develop major social welfare and development institutions in Asia and Africa.

The contemporary ecclesiastics recorded with wonder many instances of the Visigoths ' clemency: Christian churches saved from ravage ; protection granted to vast multitudes both of pagans and Christians who took refuge therein ; vessels of gold and silver which were found in a private dwelling, spared because they " belonged to St. Peter "; at least one case in which a beautiful Roman matron appealed, not in vain, to the better feelings of the Gothic soldier who attempted her dishonor.

He added a pulpit " in German style " of bronze, gold and silver, surmounted by an arch with a rood cross in the same materials ; these were examples of the lavish decorations added to important churches in the years before the conquest.

There were the seeds ( spermata ) or miniatures of wheat and flesh and gold in the primitive mixture ; but these parts, of like nature with their wholes ( the homoiomereiai of Aristotle ), had to be eliminated from the complex mass before they could receive a definite name and character.

The roof and floor of the Propylaea were partly restored, with sections of the roof made of new marble and decorated with blue and gold inserts, as in the original.

Objects of fine art from this period were frequently made from rare and valuable materials, such as gold and lapis, the cost of which commonly exceeded the wages of the artist.

In medieval Europe, egg whites were used as glue to decorate parchments with gold leaf.

After World War I and until 1986, Accrington Corporation buses were painted in the regimental colours of red and blue with gold lining.

Their possessions consisted of cattle and gold, because these were the only things they could carry about with them everywhere according to circumstances and shift where they chose.

Britain remained on the gold standard until 1931 when the gold and foreign exchange reserves were transferred to the Treasury.

Treasury notes had full legal tender status and were not convertible for gold through the Bank of England, replacing the gold coin in circulation to prevent a run on sterling and to enable raw material purchases for armament production.

In Chinese manuscripts, gold, camphor, tortoise shells, hornbill ivory, rhinoceros horn, crane crest, beeswax, lakawood ( a scented heartwood and root wood of a thick liana, Dalbergia parviflora ), dragon's blood, rattan, edible bird's nests and various spices were among the most valuable items from Borneo.

Originally, demonstration aircraft were navy blue ( nearly black ) with gold lettering.

The greed for gold led to the discovery of the process for its purification, even though the underlying principles were not well understood — it was thought to be a transformation rather than purification.

Exports from the Funan Empire were largely forest products and precious metals — including accessories such as gold elephants, ivory, rhinoceros horn, kingfisher feathers, wild spices like cardamom, lacquer hides and aromatic wood.

Beebe tells of one private car that has gold plumbing.

* 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.

* 2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.

The sum which he named was a large one, 4, 000 pounds of gold.

Instead, that night ( July 17 / 18 ), Alexios III hid in the palace, and finally, with one of his daughters, Eirene, and such treasures ( 1, 000 pounds of gold ) as he could collect, got into a boat and escaped to Debeltos in Thrace, leaving his wife and his other daughters behind.

Bioleaching is one of several applications within biohydrometallurgy and several methods are used to recover copper, zinc, lead, arsenic, antimony, nickel, molybdenum, gold, silver, and cobalt.

File: British Museum gold thing 501594 fh000035. jpg | Room 51-Mold gold cape, North Wales, Bronze Age, c. 1900 – 1600 BC ( one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working )

These factors led to the shift of the store of value being the metal itself: at first silver, then both silver and gold, at one point there was bronze as well.

The team had one of the league's best offenses that year and a defense that yielded three gold gloves.

Each one of three graves ( No. 1, 36 and 43 ) contains more gold than has been found in the entire rest of the world for that epoch.

Concurrently, until the early 1980s, U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard captains selected for promotion to the rank of rear admiral ( lower half ), would wear the same insignia as rear admiral ( upper half ), i. e., two silver stars for collar insignia or sleeve braid of one wide and one narrow gold stripe, even though they were actually only equivalent to one-star officers.

In Norse mythology, Draupnir ( Old Norse " the dripper ") is a gold ring possessed by the god Odin with the ability to multiply itself: Every ninth night eight new rings ' drip ' from Draupnir, each one of the same size and weight as the original.

The 1924 opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun revealed two daggers, one with a gold blade, and one of smelted iron.

Seafarers also introduces the " Gold River " terrain, which grants nearby players one resource of their choice for every settlement adjacent to a gold tile and 2 resources for every city.

The Pyrgi Tablets are a bilingual text in Etruscan and Phoenician engraved on three gold leaves, one for the Phoenician and two for the Etruscan.

But still Frigg preferred the splendour of her own apparel to the divine honours of her husband, and submitted herself to the embraces of one of her servants ; and it was by this man's device she broke down the image, and turned to the service of her private wantonness that gold which had been devoted to public idolatry.