On its front was the organization's seal--a toga-swathed figure holding a torch in one hand and a coin in the other.
You could redeem a thousand of them for a one-ounce gold coin similar to a Krugerrand.
As for the town's shuttered branch, Southern Michigan found a buyer in one of Athens' residents: Dave Enders, a coin dealer who stores his vast collection in the building's vault.
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One of the burials contained a coin dating back to AD 324-30, which was found near to the mouth area.
"This one here, this is a coin from ancient Rome, " said a gray-haired gentleman, drawing out a dime-sized disc from his pocket.
It could be time for their counterparts in the biotechnology industry to coin a similar phrase though perhaps one that is more in keeping with the life-saving potential of their technology.
Broadly, instead of using simple supply and demand, it explains changes in the demand for one asset (a small silver coin, say) relative to another (a large coin) in terms of changes in the rate of return that the holder of the assets can expect from each.
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RFLKT's sleek profile and lowly 2 ounce weight, make it virtually unnoticeable when mounted, while the coin cell operated battery has a life of over one year and requires no charging.
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Droplet is a compact self-contained module with an integrated RGB LED, a photodiode and a CR1216 lithium coin battery -- which provides roughly one day of power in the gadget's current early prototype status.
It's a real coin flip as to what direction this goes for a paper like the Los Angeles Times, long one of the bellwethers of print journalism.
Buyers are focusing on bullion products in the purchasing spree, with the one-ounce Kangaroo coin and bar a favorite, Currie told Kitco News in an interview.
The loonie (so named for the bird on the one-dollar coin) has soared from a record low of 62.1 American cents in January 2002 to over 74 cents this week, its highest level in six years.
There was also damage to toilets and one witness said a missile, believed to be a coin, was thrown on to the pitch.
But there is a strong sense that the ICC is only seeing one side of the coin.
So its no wonder that Gal Sasson's Make a Play wound up as one of the semi-finalists in our Insert Coin: New Challengers competition.
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One debate raging is whether the Treasury should just mint a trillion dollar platinum coin to deposit with the Federal Reserve.
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After the volunteers had made their estimates, they were asked to indicate on a scale of one to seven how familiar they were with either the banknote or the coin.
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The probability of a tie (or, if the voter count is odd, a one-vote margin) would be the probability that when you flip a coin 5.2 million times you get exactly 2.6 million heads and 2.6 million tails.
All would admit it has a problem in connecting with the European citizen, but that is only one side of the coin.
One reflected the cost of turning, say, an ounce of silver into a coin (this included minting costs plus a government coinage tax known as seigniorage).
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Museum staff worked for a whole year without pay before they lost every hope last October, gathered one more time at the fountain in the museum's botanical garden, threw a coin into it and made a wish that the institution will reopen soon.
"I was on a business trip in Europe a couple years ago when I found out that a very rare early-American coin would be going up for auction in Boston the next day, " one collector told me.
The three grammes of copper in the 1 rupee coin (we are talking about the older style, the Jinnah on one side, Badshahi Masjid on the other, a brown colour, not the newer silvery looking coin) therefore has a refined value of 2.64 US cents.
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