Like many modern crowdfunding campaigns, The World offered rewards, including gold coins for the largest donor.
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For decades, large quantities of gold coins have been issued by sovereign governments around the world.
Expensive watches, gold coins and liquor are among the items affected, said the Xinhua news agency.
So far, experts have counted 574, 553 silver coins and 212 gold coins, as well as other items.
You might be cajoled into buying gold coins which may or may not ever go up in value.
As a result, the U.S. Mint had the largest demand for gold coins in 11 years in May.
As a result few gold coins were actually minted and the vast majority of US currency was silver.
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The Royal Mint is set to produce 60 gold coins and 14, 000 silver coins for the 2012 Games.
Yes, gold coins existed, but people mostly used paper banknotes and bank transfers, just as they do today.
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However, the price of gold and silver changed relatively quickly so that it became pointless to mint gold coins.
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Her father carried gold coins in his sock during the war, so she does it in memory of him.
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Now with gold over valued, silver coins disappeared from circulation and gold coins (and paper money) dominated the currency.
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The find includes three bronze cannons, thousands of Spanish and Portuguese gold coins, and several tonnes of elephant tusks.
Contrary to popular belief, people generally did not conduct commerce with gold coins.
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Despite this, Silver Certificates were widely used with a face value equal to that of Gold Certificate and gold coins.
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Mr Alibozek has pleaded guilty to corruption charges after investigators found a cache of gold coins buried in his garden.
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They were saved when the aforementioned Nikolas of Smyrna crept down their chimney and filled their stockings with gold coins.
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Some of the widely circulated gold coins include the South African krugerrand, the U.S. eagle and the Canadian maple leaf.
Koetsu once sold his house to raise the money 30 gold coins for a particularly famous old tea caddy he yearned to buy.
Michiel de Ruyter hangs alongside plundered treasure gold coins, mighty cannons, a carved bowsprit that he wrested from Spanish ships in battle.
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They are urging you to day trade, buy commodities including gold coins, or, even worse, traffic in currencies, options or derivatives.
Mr Mugabe was presented with a cake said to weigh 89kg (196lb), and gold coins were minted to mark the occasion.
These gold coins were probably not used actively, and served more as a savings device, in a coffee can for example.
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Obviously more than a few gold coins directly benefited New Zealand, which stands in for the location of Middle Earth.
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Under this system, the dollar is defined as a fixed weight of fine gold, and the monetary base consists of gold coins.
Paper money is allowed, but only as warehouse receipts for gold coins.
Gains on collectibles, such as gold coins, are generally taxed at 25%.
She knew immediately what it was through the cloth: the same two gold coins he had showed her once when she was little.
That assumes, however, that Russians will buy gold coins issued locally doubtful, given the population's corrosive, and usually justified, distrust of all public institutions.
Its output of gold coins during July, August and September rose to 32, 736 ounces, compared with 7, 500 ounces for the same period last year.
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