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.

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.

Fictional currencies may also bear the name coin ( as such, an item may be said to be worth 123 coin or 123 coins ).

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 ' ".

Tilak, therefore, rightly said that the Swadeshi and Boycott movements are two sides of the same coin.

In general, it can be said that videogame consoles and arcade coin operated machines used at most a built-in BIOS during the 1970s, 1980s and most of the 1990s, while from the PlayStation era and beyond they started getting more and more sophisticated, to the point of requiring a generic or custom-built OS for aiding in development and expandability.

The bread contains a coin ; during the lunch, the family breaks up the bread and the one who finds the coin is said to be assured of an especially happy year.

Since Barks never actually said that it was because of the coin that Scrooge was the richest duck in the world, Don Rosa, after various informations exchange with Barks, for a faithful production of Life and Times Of Scrooge McDuck, clarified that The Number One Dime is not actually an amulet, and that this vision was just a myth.

Our Federal Government said that only coin money would be used for purchases.

" ( shouted repeatedly in a phone exchange between Rod Tidwell and Jerry Maguire ), " You complete me ", " Help me help you ", and " You had me at ' hello '" ( said by Renée Zellweger's Dorothy Boyd after a lengthy romantic plea by Jerry Maguire ), and " Kwan ", a word used by Cuba Gooding, Jr .' s Tidwell meaning love, respect, community, and money, also spelled " quan " and " quawn ", to illustrate the difference between himself and other football players: " Other football players may have the coin, but they won't have the ' Quan '".

When Burns said: " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a ' that "; when Sterne, in Tristram Shandy, said, " Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal, but gold and silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight ," what did these writers do but adopt — adopt without improving — Manly's fine saying to Freeman, in the first act: " I weigh the man, not his title ; ' tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better or heavier "?

With insertion of a coin, the machine said " thank you " and added a one-liner voiced by comic Henny Youngman.

It is said that at Sainte-Menehould, where the escaping party had spent the previous night, a merchant alerted the town authorities of their presence after recognizing the King's face on a coin, as Louis tried to buy something from a shop.

The edges of coins made of precious metals have been clipped or shaved by individuals in order to procure small quantities of said metals at a time with the intention that the coin would still retain its nominal value.

The legitimacy of the ruler was " symbolized by the right to coin money and to have the Friday prayer ( Jumu ' ah khutba ) said in his name.

" I am a good little bit of a poet ," Béranger said of himself, " clever in the craft, and a conscientious worker to whom old airs and a modest choice of subjects ( le coin que me suis confine ) have brought some success.

Similar things can be said about the coin which appears circular from one vantage point and oval-shaped from another.

A coin is said to be debased if the quantity of gold, silver, copper or nickel is reduced.

A local resident, Guy Mellgren, said that he found this coin on August 18, 1957, at the Goddard site, the extensive archeological remains of an old Native American settlement at Naskeag Point, Brooklin, Maine on Penobscot Bay.

This area of the coin is said to have since crumbled to dust from corrosion.

Some coins of Kujula also represent a cross-legged seated figure, said to be one of the first known representations of the Buddha on a coin ( Whitehead ).

The word sequin is said to be the French derivation of the Italian zecchino, a pure gold coin minted by the Venetians in 1284.

It is said, that when the Ming Commander, Yang Hao, told King Seonjo ( r. 1567-1601 ) during the Japanese invasion that he had discovered high-quality tea plants in Korea, and that " if you were to sell the tea in Liaodong, you could get a silver coin for every ten pounds of tea.

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.

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.

Roman coinage later supplanted Etruscan, but the basic Roman coin, the sesterce, is believed to have been based on the 2. 5 denomination Etruscan coin.

In general, if we let A < sub > i </ sub > be the event that toss i of a fair coin comes up heads, then we have,

Now suppose that we have just tossed four heads in a row, so that if the next coin toss were also to come up heads, it would complete a run of five successive heads.

From these observations, there is no reason to assume at any point that a change of luck is warranted based on prior trials ( flips ), because every outcome observed will always have been as likely as the other outcomes that were not observed for that particular trial, given a fair coin.

Other exports probably included agricultural products, oysters and salt, whilst large quantities of coin would have been re-exported back to the continent as well.

A series of tosses of a two-headed coin will have zero entropy, since the outcomes are entirely predictable.

Private mints have also attempted to capitalize off the popularity of the Krugerrand, minting gold and silver bullion rounds ( the term coin denotes legal currency ) in the style of the Krugerrand.

The Articles of Confederation, ratified by the colonies in 1781, contained the clause, " The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states — fixing the standards of weights and measures throughout the United States — ....".

Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution of the United States ( 1789 ), transferred this power to Congress ; " The Congress shall have power ... To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures ".

" 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.

One might imagine that using a die instead of a coin could solve the problem, but the fundamental issue about measuring spin in different directions is that these measurements cannot have definite values at the same time ― they are incompatible.

The biologist Orator F. Cook seems to have been the first to coin the term ' speciation ' for the splitting of lineages or " cladogenesis ," as opposed to " anagenesis " or " phyletic evolution " occurring within lineages.

Modern slot machines are controlled by EPROM computer chips and, in large casinos, coin acceptors have become obsolete in favor of bill acceptors.

The past few decades have seen the continuing work of the TDK to coin new Turkish words to express new concepts and technologies as they enter the language, mostly from English.

* To date, President Kekkonen is the only Finnish person to have a collector coin issued in his honour during his lifetime.

This method resembles the Ancient Greek practice of placing an obolus in the corpse's mouth to pay the toll to cross the River Styx in the underworld ; it has been argued that instead, the coin was intended to ward off any evil spirits from entering the body, and this may have influenced later vampire folklore.

It is related to numismatics proper ( concerned with coins which have been legal tender ), and many coin collectors are also exonumists.

Persian lexemes and certain morphological elements ( e. g. the " ezāfe ") have often been employed to coin political, cultural etc.

" or " Given that I have flipped a coin 100 times and it has landed heads-up 100 times, what is the likelihood that the coin is fair?