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3 unusual facts about gold coin


Gold coin

The European Commission publishes annually a list of gold coins which must be treated as investment gold coins in all EU Member States.

In the United Kingdom, HM Revenue and Customs have added an additional list of gold coins alongside the European Commission list.

RPG Tsukūru: Super Dante

These monsters are assigned hit points, attack strength, defensive strength, their agility rating, and the amount of gold pieces that they carry by the player/designer(s).


Charles Alexandre de Calonne

In October 1785 he recoined the gold coinage, and he developed the caisse d'escompte (dealing in cash discounts).

Swiss franc

In addition to these general circulation coins, numerous series of commemorative coins have been issued, as well as silver and gold coins.


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Arnold Nogy

The Dog Sled Team, of which two coins were produced; a collector edition, a sterling silver 30 dollar coin with coloured image and, a gold coin of 250 dollar denomination.

Brasher Doubloon

The unique Brasher Doubloon, the first gold coin made for the young United States, was sold December 2011 by nationally known rare coin dealer, Steven L. Contursi of Laguna Beach, California, to Certified Acceptance Corporation (CAC) of Far Hills, New Jersey.

Currency of Uruguay

Lacking the means to implement a national coinage, Gen. José Rondeau's provisional government permitted foreign silver and gold coin to circulate freely (law of 4 October 1828) at its intrinsic value, but it restricted and then prohibited the import of copper coin and the circulation of Buenos Aires bank notes (March 1829).

Fijian gold pacific sovereign

The Fijian gold Pacific Sovereign is a 24-karat, bullion, one-ounce gold coin of .9999 purity minted by the New Zealand Mint (first released mid-2009) in commemoration of the islands of Fiji, a sovereign nation and member (albeit a suspended member as of 2006) of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Jean Varin

Varin brought back the use of the screw press in the mint, and used it to produce the Louis d'or, a gold coin featuring a portrait of Louis XIII.

John M. Woolsey

Woolsey also invalidated Executive Order 6102, an Executive Order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates".

Kadamba of Hangal

The gold coin of Kadambas depict god Hanuman, in side lined circle and doted circle, flanked by two chouries and conch.

Madurai Nayak dynasty

Another gold coin of the same ruler features the mythical bird Gandaberunda.

Philemon Pownoll

Once captured she was found to be the Spanish register ship Hermione, which had sailed from Lima on 6 January bound for Cadiz with a valuable cargo of bags of dollars, gold coin, ingots of gold and silver, cocoa, and blocks of tin.

Rupnagar district

This includes a gold coin issued by Chandragupta-Kumerdevi of the Gupta dynasty, which is also known as the golden age in ancient Indian history.

SS Carolina

In the event, Chatteron would eventually salvage the purser's safe from the Carolina with renowned wreck diver Gary Gentile, which was found to contain gold coin and jewelry.

Tillya Tepe

A gold coin was also found in tomb III showing the bust in profile of the wreath-crowned Roman Emperor Tiberius.

Tjurkö bracteates

Also discovered with the bracteates was a gold coin of the Emperor Theodosius II of the Eastern Roman Empire that has been dated to 443 AD.

Twenty pence

A Gold penny, an English medieval gold coin from the 13th century

West End Slowdown

The games have been generally well supported with crowds of around 10-15,000 attending most games, though some games such as Slowdown VI in 2005 saw a crowd of around 25,000 with the entry fee being only a gold coin donation (A$1 or $2) with all gate takings going to the Little Heroes Foundation.