These coins were formerly brought here in large quantities for recoinage, but have now become scarce.
Various coins and Indian implements, some of which I saw, have been turned up with the soil on this neck of land.
There are coins still extant of this Eraess, as Spanheim informs us.
The colony of Berytus was rendered famous by the benefits of Caesar; and thence it is that, among the coins of Augustus, we meet with some having this inscription: The happy colony of Augustus at Berytua.
Whence we have, upon the coins of Philadelphus, this known inscription, "The divine brother and sister.
Darius counted the coins in it and made calculations on blotting-paper, breathing stertorously all the time.
For a moment the Captain took his pistol from my face, and stooped to clutch at the golden coins as they trickled and ran to right and left.
There was already quite a collection of coins and a few bills in the bottom of the receptacle.
Temple, 'The Coins of the Modern Chiefs of the Panjâb' (Ind.
A summary of the events of his reign, based on coins and other original documents, is given on page 45 of Thomas, Chronicles of the Pathân Kings of Delhi.
Bulâkî assumed the title of Dâwar Baksh during his short reign, and struck coins at Lahore.
He is usually represented on the earliest coins with two bearded faces, looking in opposite directions; in the time of Hadrian the number of faces is increased to four.
The yen continued to be their coin of account, with a fixed sterling value of a small fraction over two shillings, and the denominations of the gold coins were doubled.
The coins in circulation are British gold and silver, but not bronze, instead of which local nickel is used.
She spent so much time over the old letters in Washington's handwriting, the snuff boxes and keys and coins with which the cases were filled that I was alarmed lest she should over-tire herself.
When Dicky is in good humor he coins all sorts of tender names for me.
These differences in value of the coins represent the fluctuations in the price of silver, and they certainly do not indicate that compulsory coinage by the Government enhances the price of that commodity or secures uniformity in its value.
The Secretary in the course of his report considers the propriety of beautifying the designs of our subsidiary silvercoins and of so increasing their weight that they may bear their due ratio of value to the standard dollar.
When the time comes that gold has been withdrawn from circulation, then will be apparent the difference between the real value of the silver dollar and a dollar in gold, and the two coins will part company.
The regulation of foreign coins in correspondency with the principles of our national coinage, as being essential to their due operation and to order in our money concerns, will, I doubt not, be resumed and completed.
It is well known to our merchants trading to China and the west coast of America that great inconvenience and loss are experienced from the fact that our coins are not current at their par value in those countries.
There has also been a small beginning in the coinage of half dimes, the want of small coins in circulation calling the first attention to them.
A value was soon attached to the gold coins which made their exportation to foreign countries as a mercantile commodity more profitable than their retention and use at home as money.
Any safe legislation upon this subject must secure the equality of the two coins in their commercial uses.
The soldier threw away all his copper coins in a great hurry.
When the tinker saw the kettle, he offered twenty copper coins for it, and the priest was only too glad to close the bargain and be rid of his troublesome piece of furniture.
He had only two coppercoins left: he was only a poor soldier once more.
Once in his little room he counted his coins all night long, but could make no more than four of them; and as that was all his treasure, he counted upon satisfying the fair one by giving her all he had in the world.
The girl returned with two more of the gold coins I have mentioned.
Here she took the circlet of coins from her neck and handed it to me.
I recognised at once the head of Charles the First, and made out without difficulty that the coins were twenty-shilling and ten-shilling pieces of that king's reign.
She wore a necklet of bright gold coinsabout her neck, and thick ivory bangles upon her shapely arms.
I was intensely interested, and first examined the gold coins composing the necklet.
Aurelian regarded himself as an absolute monarch and employed on his coins the titles dominus et deus natus--"born Lord and God.
A comparison of the imperial portraits on the coins of the fourth century with those of the principate up to the dynasty of the Severi reveals the same decline in taste and artistic ability.
It is not surprising then that Aurelian, whose coins bore the legend dominus et deus natus (born god and lord), made the worship of the Unconquered Sun-god the chief cult of the state.
Both these coins rapidly deteriorated in quality until they became mere copper coins with a wash of silver.
He took the title of pontifex maximus, maintained the imperial cult, and until 330 issued coins with the image of the Sun-god, with whom the emperor was often identified.
With her undamaged hand she produced a rupee from her pocket, where a few coinschinked casually, looked at it, and groped for another.
She was almost discordant in her literalness, in her clear olive tints and the kol smudges under her eyes, the string of coins in the mass of her fallen hair, and her unfettered body.
A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.
Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.
Except for these I hold that L700 a year is as much as any body can possibly want; and I have had more, so I know, for the extry coins were for no use, excepting for illness, which damns everything.
Another brings you silver coins to make into a basin, and you get to keep whatever coins are left over.
She began a slow search of her hand-bag, found coins and slowly dialed a new number.
Father Ambrosius emptied it on his desk and stirred the broad silver coins wonderingly with his finger.
Jeremy and his father had to grope in the pitchy blackness for the coinsthat Bob held out to them.
Before a dozen coins had been removed a sudden red glare on the walls of the chasm caused the three to leap to their feet.
Then I hung the chain and key again on the neck of the lourdaud; I put some of the fallen coins in the men's pouches, but bestowed the dice and tablier in my wallet.
Howbeit, thinking it good to have a friend at court, I made occasion to put in the hand of the old serving-woman all of such small coins as I had won in my life servile, deeming myself well quit of such ill-gotten gear.
It would scarcely help you, would it, to be told to arrange coins in piles, the best coins at top and bottom and the worst in the middle, unless you were first taught to distinguish real from counterfeit.
I noticed that he drew a handful of gold coins from his pocket when it came to paying for the lunch.
For long-distance service, where the charges vary, it is necessary to signal to an operator just what coinsare paid.
It is uniformly customary to send these signals by sound, the collector being so arranged that the coins strike gongs.
In coin collectors of the Gray Telephone Paystation Company, the coins strike these gongs by their own weight in falling through chutes.
The denominations of those coins seem originally to have expressed the weight or quantity of metal contained in them.
There were silver coins in England in the time of the Saxons; but there was little gold coined till the time of Edward III nor any copper till that of James I.
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