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Example sentences for "copper coin"

  • In Virginia, where our towns are few, small, and of course their demand for necessaries very limited, we have never yet been able to introduce a copper coin at all.

  • Spanish bit), and a copper coin of one-hundredth of a dollar.

  • The deities of the six and seven god-worshippers are identical, except that the latter have one extra called Durga or Devi, who is represented by a copper coin of the old Nagpur dynasty.

  • When a body is buried a rupee or a copper coin is tied in the sheet, so that the deceased may not go penniless to the other world.

  • If the animal eats the flour they say that the soul of the deceased has shown his wish to remain in the house, and he is enshrined there in the shape of a stone or copper coin.

  • The writer of this tract in defence of the patent maintained the following propositions: (1) That the Kingdom of Ireland wants a Copper Coin.

  • Another device is to make a pile of rice, with a knot of turmeric and a copper coin concealed in it.

  • There was a lack of copper coin in Ireland, which hampered the small transactions of the poor, and rendered the payment of weekly or daily wages a matter of difficulty.

  • A copper coin of the value of four maravedis, or about one English farthing.

  • The poor creatures then held out their hands, filled with cuartos, a copper coin of the value of a farthing, but unfortunately I had no Testaments to give them.

  • A copper coin in use in Germany previous to 1848; in value about one farthing.

  • He said to me, 'You like studying the dead, they say; have my dead for a copper coin.

  • For the name of Christ is used to cover every crime, by the peasant who cheats his neighbor of a copper coin, as by the sovereign who massacres a nation for a throne.

  • The granting of this patent, and the mode of supplying the deficiency in copper coin, might seem little open to objection; but the Irish Privy Council at once declared against the whole transaction.

  • He felt the most sincere resentment at the arbitrary manner in which the Government in London were dealing with Ireland in the matter of Wood's patent and Wood's copper coin.

  • No doubt can be entertained of the nation deriving considerable advantages from having increased the weight of copper coin, so as to bring it as near as possible to the intrinsic value of the metal of which it is composed.

  • This bears cruelly on the labouring classes and all who are paid in copper coin.


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