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  Coin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some coins have coin orientation, where the coin must be flipped vertically to see the other side; other coins, such as British coins, have medallic orientation, where the coin must be flipped horizontally to see the other side.
Coins that are not round (British 50 pence for example) usually have an odd number of sides, with the edges rounded off.
Coins are popularly used as a sort of two-sided die; in order to choose between two options with a random possibility, one choice will be labeled "heads" and the other "tails," and a coin will be flipped or "tossed" to see whether the heads or tails side comes up on top.
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 Coins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Coins are usually used of lower-valued units, with banknotes are usually used of an higher values; also, in most money systems, an highest value coin is worth less than an lowest-value note.
Some coins have coin orientation, where an coin must be flipped vertically to see an other side; other coins, such for British coins, have medallic orientation, where an coin must be flipped horizontally to see an other side.
Coins are popularly used for the sort of two-sided die; in order to choose between two options with the random possibility, one choice will be labeled "heads" with an other "tails," with the coin will be flipped or "tossed" to see whether an heads or tails side comes up on top.
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 Coin Did You Mean coin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This is the reason some modern coins have ridges, known as "reeds," on their edges; the presence of reeding shows that the coin's edge has not been shaved.
Circulating unmilled British sterling silver coins were known to be shaved to almost half of their minted weight.
This is so that the coin has a constant diameter, and therefore will be recognised by machines whichever way it is inserted.
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 how ghostly were the 1920s in Japan?
In his essay on Surrealism in Japan, Yoshio Abe argues that during the years from the late 1910s to the early 1930s, "it was a sort of optimistic gaiety that set the Futuristic orientation in the avant-garde or modernist atmosphere."[23] Hence the heroic tone of the poem of Hagiwara at the beginning of this article.
It was urgent for Japanese language to cope with concepts inexistent at the moment of assimilating Western thought during the second half of the nineteenth century.
[48] The necessity to coin new, uncommon words was the most urgent task assumed by the Japanese language since the second half of the nineteenth century.
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 Unknown coin or charm
Shown here item looks like Chinese coin or charm but with unknown upper and bottom characters on the obverse (reverse is plain).
The style of the coin, along with the denomination of 30 would tend to place it in the period between Wang Mang and the T'ang Dynasty.
The characters on the obverse side of this coin are bold and short, but the strokes of Wang Mang's coin are long and thin usualy.
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 Coin Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
By the above definition, the invention and first known usage of coins comes from the Kingdom of Lydia circa 643-630 B.C. True coins also developed very close to this time frame in both India and China.
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 1850 Eureka California Gold Coin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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