The amount would be paid electronically so you would not need a tiny coin and tiny bank notes.
The price Joyce paid was not only in the coin of professional tribulation.
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.
On the other side of the coin, lengthy sagas are not the sole prerogative of the literary elite.
The Mint also announced Thursday that with sufficient gold and silver on hand to meet anticipated coin demand, it will not allocate sales to dealers in early 2012, as has been the case for several years, due to unprecedented demand and a lack of bullion supply.
Paying for financial advice might not seem quite as bizarre as paying for coin-toss predictions, but there are some similarities.
Furthermore, those who paid in advance for predictions placed bigger bets on subsequent coin tosses than those who did not.
The flip side of the coin is that some scientists are not immune to overhyping findings for a little extra ink.
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Though no one has yet proved the case, it looks as though the evolution of language and the evolution of theory of mind might not only be two sides of the same coin, but might actually be different specialisations of the same basic structure.
In our scramble to save billions, if not trillions, of dollars, perhaps the unloved dollar coin will finally find its way into our pocketbooks.
And if their patents get curbed or struck down in the Samsung ruling (a coin toss at this point) they will not be able to tithe the other manufacturers into submission.
If not, then the proposal for a military surge under a COIN doctrine is, at best, premature.
On the other side of the coin are a large number of banks that may not be in existence in the near future.
But - and you know, I share with Cynthia, I - and on the reverse side of this coin, I would hope that that's not the case.
Dr Alter and Dr Oppenheimer were not surprised to find that all participants were less familiar with the coin than with the banknote.
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Sure, once in a while a fair flipped coin will give you ten heads in a row, but not often enough to worry about.
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"The reverse side of the coin is that when new drugs are released, they do not have the proven efficacy that older drugs may, " Barbey says.
But Prof Chrystal says that in general the smallest denomination coin is the most likely to disappear as habits change, but not for a while yet.
Fund managers themselves are stewards of other people's money in a way that is not dissimilar to the role played by the executives of public companies: to coin the golden rule of stock-market capitalism, turkeys rarely vote for Christmas.
This problem explains why metal money has circulated not in lumps but as coins, with a regulated amount of metal in each coin.
The Central Bank said that the coin was an artistic representation of the author and the text, and was "not intended as a literal representation".
If you tuned in to Insert Coin yesterday, you probably caught my longwinded explanation of why I was in fact NOT choosing Skyrim as my game of the year, something that has seemed like a forgone conclusion for many critics and fans since its release a few weeks ago.
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"If you go on Ebay and you can get a Roman coin from 200BC for 25 cents, there's a reason - it's not high quality, " Dr Jackson told BBC News.
"This is not the first time the mint is producing at high demand, " says Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World.
Could we not pay our senior professors an enormous amount, to increase a person's lifetime utility package (to coin a phrase) enough to draw in far-sighted youngsters?
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