"See?" She held up proudly a medallion, or coin of some sort, hung on a narrow strip of raw-hide.

Finally trying several other pockets, he held out his hand with a small coin in it.

At West Street, where Broadway intersects, the red sun at its far end settled redly and cleanly to sink like a huge coin into the horizon.

With the latter, who was drowned in 1809, on a passage to Lisbon with his regiment, he spent a considerable portion of his time on the Cam, swimming and diving, in which art they were so expert as to pick up eggs, plates, thimbles, and coins from a depth of fourteen feetincidents recalled to the poet's mind by reading Milton's invocation to Sabrina.

But I wanted to see if you were worth splitting the coin with.

He was not in Dorn's squad, but he knew Dorn pretty well, and in a moment of deviltry he had coined for Dorn the name "Kaiser Dorn."

And still, at the door, he hesitated, drew back, and laid the silver coin on the table.

Many of them tossed coins to the priest's attendant slave.

I stuck a greasy bamboo firmly into the earth, putting a bag of copper coins at the top.

And he took the coin out of his pocket and showed it.

Postage and other public dues have been collected in coin without serious inconvenience even in States where a depreciated paper currency has existed for years, and this, with the aid of Treasury notes for a part of the time, was done without interruption during the suspension of 1837.

And he went from group to group holding out his peaked felt hat, into which, amid an icy silence, fell coin by coin a dribble of small silver.

Evasio Mon descended from the carriage and paid the man, giving, it would seem, a liberal "propina," for the One-eyed Pedro expectorated on the coin before putting it into his pocket.

Most of the Indians showed no resentment and were in the end pleased and surprised to find themselves the recipients of a small silver coin as compensation for loss of time.

At one corner a richly dressed old woman threw handful after handful of small silver coins among us.

Unfortunately each great vassal vied with the kings in this, and to such an extent, that the enormous quantity of bad money coined during the ninth century completed the public ruin, and made this a sad period of social chaos.

"His Excellency knows not what he asks," said the patron, fumbling the coin between a finger and thumb; "our Genevese citizens love to keep house till the sun is up, lest they should break their necks by walking about the uneven streets in the dark, and it will be two long hours before a single bureau will open its windows in the town.

[Illustration: Gold and Silver Coins of the Thirteenth Century.

Then he would drop it on a piece of rag carpet, snatch the carpet with his teeth, throw the coin across the room and rush for it like mad, until he got tired.

He went through contortions, pitched coins against himself, and staggered around the room with a soda-water bottle at his lips, imitating a drunkard.

Let me see," pushing the coins about with her slender fingers, "you just keep the forty-two cents, Uncle John.

These payments included the full annuity for 1838, and the deferred half annuity for 1837, making a total of $47,000, which was paid in coin per capita.

Even in our own day the inhabitants of Central America make use of the beans as small coins, as they have no copper money, nor smaller silver coins than the half-real.

Merle filtered coins through his fingers for the wondrous feel of them.

After the company has fully assembled someone brings forward a cocoanut on a tray with a few copper coins beside it.