In the period between 1610 and 1717, it will be argued, gold may not have been minted indigenously in any significant quantity, but it did not disappear from the market.
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Facts suggest, therefore, "the triumph of the standard formula" was achieved rather by vertical unification between upper and lower level markets than by new minting technology.
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As often as not, some of these usages are minted in their shortened, one-word form, rendering them all the more zesty and sophisticated as a form of speech disguise.
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The design and preparations for minting will take some time and details of the issue will be made known in due course.
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The need to provide 1 and 2 mil coins would increase minting costs.
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Pennies were last minted in substantial quantities in 1949.
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We started decimalising our coinage when the first florin was minted in 1870 but it has taken us about 100 years to complete the process.
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The design and preparation for minting will take some time and details of the issue will be made known in due course.
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Thirdly, they have imposed a complete restriction in this country on buying, holding or selling gold coins minted after 1837.
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Furthermore, at the bottom end of the scale the expense of minting new coins would have been much lower in the bronze coins.
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I think that the objections to minting any three-halfpenny coin outweigh any possible convenience to be derived from it.
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We have rarely found anything to complain about in their newly minted democratic systems.
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Are more sixpences to be minted to enable a proper trial and review to take place during the conversion period?
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The gold coins are minted 900–1000ths fine, and the weight of the 10 yen gold piece is, therefore, 8.3,333 grammes.
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Since then output has trebled mainly for export, and capacity for minting the decimal coinage is now also required.
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