On May 10th I attended the Committee of the House of Commons on decimal coinage: and in May and September I wrote letters to the Athenaeum on decimal coinage.

Why then has the fractional coinage a monetary value equal to the standard money, dollar for dollar?

My companions only saw the apparitionheard no word from him; and my uncle's party will assert, with absolute likelihood to the minds of those who do not know meand who here knows me but my mother!that charge is a mere coinage of jealous disappointment, working upon the melancholy I have not cared to hide.

The complaints about the old fashioned coinage we venture to assort have since the first of August occupied five times as much space in the colonial papers, we might probably say in each and every one of them, as those of the non-working of the freemen.

The late sultan, Mustapha III, had lost almost the last remnant of his subjects' respect, not so much by the ill success of his mutinous armies as by his depreciation of the imperial coinage.

and twentyfortyfiftyother crack contributors to the Reviews, Magazines and Gazettes, who have said more tender, and true, and fine, and deep things in the way of criticism, than ever was said before since the reign of Cadmus, ten thousand times over,not in long, dull, heavy, formal, prosy theoriesbut flung off-hand, out of the glowing minta coinage of the purest oreand stamped with the ineffaceable impress of genius.

Germany pointed out that, though England was quite certainly going to lose the war, she had issued an immense paper coinage which had all the purchasing power of gold.

A year ago the Pope was supported by French bayonets, but his light coinage would not pass in Paris.

In 1878 silver was made legal tender, and given limited coinage.

3,013,000 Profits on seigniorage minor coinage and recoinage... 2,387,000 Total receipts.......................................$5,935,000 Expenditures: All kinds............................................$1,138,000 Net revenues from mint service.....................$4,797,000 § 5.

But the phrase cannot, as in the case of a monetary coinage, at once be recalled, for it has gone broadcast over the land, or, at any rate, it is not recalled, and it goes on being passed from hand to hand, its image and superscription defaced by wear, long after it has ceased to represent anything.

3,013,000 Profits on seigniorage minor coinage and recoinage... 2,387,000 Total receipts.......................................$5,935,000 Expenditures: All kinds............................................$1,138,000 Net revenues from mint service.....................$4,797,000 § 5.

Peter de la Forest, Archbishop of Rouen and Chancellor of France, asked them in the king's name "to consult together about making him a subvention which should suffice for the expenses of the war," and the king offered to "make a sound and durable coinage."

Birmingham was already noted for spurious coinage.

Notes are issued for the third, fourth, and twelfth parts of this: values smaller than the latter are represented by a token coinage of square medals composed of an alloy in which gold and silver respectively are the principal elements.

He wished, and the Chinese agreed, to include in it clauses relative to the establishment of a national Chinese Post Office and the opening of mints for uniform coinage throughout the Empire.

Congress should provide that the compulsory coinage of silver now required by law may not disturb our monetary system by driving either metal out of circulation.

There were fine passages in all, but these were often embedded in thoughts which have evidently a special value to his mind, but are to other men the counters of an unknown coinage.

The islands under the sovereignty of Spain had their own distinct silver coinage in peso, media peso, peseta and media peseta pieces.

If a joke goes round, it shall be of an elder coinage than Joe Miller's, as old as Lord Bacon's collection, or as the jest-book that Master Slender asked for when he lacked small-talk for sweet Anne Page.

As it is, the government makes a seigniorage profit on the fiduciary coinage, as shown in the following table.

The Chinese are accustomed to bring gold and silver as currency, mixed also with foreign coinage, to Manila for the purpose of buying the produce of the country; and all this the native merchants had recoined.