The cash has shown up in a number of places, but most of it is from coins I picked up.
Unlike Las Vegas, where most of the profits come from coins fed into slot machines, three-quarters of the revenue in Macau is derived from the enormous bets made in the V.
Now with gold over valued, silver coins disappeared from circulation and gold coins (and paper money) dominated the currency.
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Upping the ante, from the coins that tourists happily lose in the town's myriad amusement arcades to ten chips being lost across a green baize gaming table, is a serious possibility.
From the coins on which James I is depicted as a Roman emperor to a huge tapestry of Warwickshire (commissioned by a man with land and connections), these artefacts shaped the way people perceived the world, and help historians to understand what they saw.
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The tradition of hanging stockings by the chimney came from England, where the story was told that Father Christmas dropped some gold coins from his pockets and they were caught in socks hanging by the fire to dry.
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Exhibits include pottery dating back to the 3rd Century BC and coins from the 17th Century.
The winner of that particular evening's contest had brought in coins from ancient Greece, Rome and 19th-century America.
Euro notes and coins are due to be issued in place of national notes and coins from the start of 2002.
Your income would come from all the coins deposited into those devices.
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These purchase coins from main cash collection points, such as railway stations and temples, and deliver them at the customer's doorstep for a fee.
In the spring of 2007 Odyssey Marine Exploration, an American-deep-sea treasure hunting company based in Tampa, recovered 594, 000 silver coins from a Spanish shipwreck.
The US Treasury has said the Obama administration has thought about making its one cent coins from a cheaper material - they are currently made of zinc.
The Treasury plans to make the new coins from nickel-plated steel instead of the alloy, which has become more expensive as the price of copper has risen in recent years.
So ICTA tries make legislators realize that sales taxes on gold coins would devastate dealers in their states, since customers would simply go online to buy coins from dealers in other states.
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In making a reconstruction of a building an archaeologist will use information from a number of coins, each of which may show a different perspective.
From beanie babies to rare coins, I have seen myriad unimaginable, improbable investments in public pension portfolios.
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The coins are made from steel but plated in nickel, replacing the current cupro-nickel version which contains 75% copper and 25% nickel.
Sikeliote craftsmen became the masters of the ancient world at carving microscopically detailed dies from which gold and silver coins were stamped in a great variety of intricate images not just of gods and humans, but of flying four-horse chariots and great eagles devouring their prey.
Items also declared treasure by Norfolk's assistant deputy coroner David Osborne included an Anglo-Saxon silver pin found in Scoulton, a Middle Bronze Age Gold Bead discovered in Salthouse and a hoard of 59 silver Roman coins that date from the Roman Republic to Tiberius, the second emperor of Rome.
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It helped to differentiate them from the retail bankers who rolled coins in branches.
For investors, coins are commonly bought from private dealers at a premium of about 1-5% above their underlying gold value.
There has also been a spike in demand for gold bars and coins (such as from the American Precious Metals Exchange).
From January, 5p and 10p coins are set to be minted using steel instead of copper and will be 11% thicker.
These include a previously unexcavated section of the temple, as well as rubbish and ritual deposits from the Walbrook, including Roman coins.
The coins are currently made from the nickel and copper alloy cupro-nickel.
The convoy carried coins with denominations ranging from 25 Iraqi dinars to 100 Iraqi dinars (about 2 cents to about 7 cents in U.S. currency).
At about the same time, the Mint received reports from banks around the country that coins were being deposited that were still in their U.S. Mint boxes, he says.
In 1921 the Irish Free State won its independence from Great Britain and introduced its own coins and notes in 1928, although the Irish pound remained tied to sterling until 1979.
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