In numismatics, a mule is a coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece. These can be intentional or produced by error. This type of error is highly sought after, and examples can fetch steep prices from collectors.

Several prominent mule errors have been discovered in recent […]

A pattern coin is a coin produced for the purpose of evaluating a proposed coin design, but which was not approved for general circulation. Generally, these coins are of interest only to collectors of pattern coins. However, pattern coins that are later selected for normal production, such as the United States 1856 Flying Eagle […]

This article is about the gambling coin game. For other uses, see Nickel (disambiguation).

Nickels is a gambling coin game played with any desired denomination of coins. It is played on a flat, hard surface next to a back wall, such as the side of a building or a street curb. The objective of […]

The sextans was an Ancient Roman bronze coin produced during the Roman Republic valued at one-sixth of an as (2 unciae). The most common design for the sextans was the bust of Mercury and two pellets (indicating two unciae) on the obverse and the prow of a galley on the reverse. Earlier types depicted a […]

Axis Airways is an airline based in Marseille, France. It operates domestic and international charter flights and cargo services on behalf of European clients. Its main bases are Marseille Provence Airport and Paris Charles de Gaulle<ref name=”FI”></ref>.

History
The airline was founded as Sinair in Grenoble. It was sold by Pan European Air Services to […]

The twenty pence coin, which features the horse (an Irish hunter) that was on the half-crown coin that was produced for the Irish Free State in 1928, was introduced on October 30 1986. This is first Irish decimal coin that was of a different size to the corresponding decimal British coinage which had until this […]

Koban can refer to two different Japanese words, with different pronunciations:

kōban (交番), with a long o: Koban (police box)

Koban (小判), with a short o: Koban, a former Japanese oval gold coin

It is also the name of the ancient Koban culture in Ossetia.

Obtaining Best Antique Coin Appraisal Can Be Long Road Those looking to […]

Intratec was a firearm company based in Miami, Florida. The company’s most famous product was the TEC-9.

History
Intratec began as Interdynamic USA, an offshoot of Swedish firearms manufacturer Interdynamic AB. Due to the lack of firearm market in Sweden, Interdynamic AB set up a subsidiary in the United States to sell the KG-9. Called Interdynamic USA, […]

The quadrigatus was a medium-sized silver coin produced by the Roman Republic during the 3rd century BC. The obverse featured a young janiform bust and the reverse featured Victory driving a quadriga, giving the coin its name, with the inscription “ROMA” below.

The coin weighed about 6.8 grams (6 scruples), consistent with a didrachma. The coin […]

The Kronenthaler was a silver coin first issued in the Austrian Netherlands (see Austrian Netherlands Kronenthaler). It contained one ninth of a Cologne mark of silver and was thus equal to the Reichsthaler of the Leipzig convention. After the Austrian Netherlands was occupied by France, several German states (Bavaria, Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt and Württemberg) issued Kronenthaler, […]

The term Latten refers loosely to copper alloys, much like brass, employed in the Middle Ages and through to the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, for items such as decorative effect on borders, rivets or other details of metalwork (particularly armour) and for funerary effigies. It was commonly formed in thin sheets and used […]

Regular issue coinage is a term that distinguishes coins created for commerce from commemorative coins. Regular issue coins are normally produced in relatively large numbers, and are primarily meant to be used as pocket change, not collected. Business Strike is the technical term for regular issue coinage.

Because special collector coins, such as proof coinage, are […]

An Angel is a gold coin, first used in France (where it was also known as an Angelot and an Ange) in 1340, and introduced into England by Edward IV in 1465 as a new issue of the “noble” and so at first called the “angel-noble“. It varied in value between that period and the […]

Florin may refer to:

Modern currency

Aruban florin, the currency of Aruba

Hungarian forint, the official currency of Hungary

The currency sign “ƒ”, called the florin sign

Obsolete coins

Italian coin florin, minted in Florence in 1252 (origin of name “florin”), first gold coin minted after the Dark Ages in Western Europe; see also, Bezants

Dutch gulden, […]

Hand-for-hand situations in the card game of poker arise exclusively during tournaments at times in which multiple tables are in play and the tournament is nearing an increase in the prize payouts, and/or there must be a definitive player ranking.

In poker tournaments, the order of elimination is the means of determining player rank. Because […]

The florin coin (more commonly known as the two-shilling coin) was a pre-decimal coin and worth 1/10 of an Irish pound. The coin featured the salmon and the original minting of the coin from 1928 until 1943 contained 75% silver, a higher content than the equivalent British coin. It is believed that this was done […]

Radial loop is a term used in classifying fingerprints. Radial loops start on the thumb-side of the finger, the side closer to the radius (bone).

Welcome to the South Side - Pittsburgh Features information about this historic part of the city. Includes details on the shops and attractions, housing information, investment opportunities and
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WBWI (92.5 FM) is a country music-formatted radio station in West Bend, Wisconsin. They serve the greater Milwaukee area. WBWI is owned by Wisconsin-based Bliss Communications, along with sister WBKV and Racine-based WEZY.

The station was originally WBKV-FM. On September 16, 1988, the station picked up the WBWI call letters. In late 1989/early 1990, the station […]

Baryonic dark matter is the dark matter (matter that doesn’t emit light) composed of baryons, i.e. protons and neutrons. Candidates for
baryonic dark matter are non-luminous gas, MACHOs, and brown dwarfs.

The total amount of baryonic dark matter can be calculated from big bang nucleosynthesis, and observations of the cosmic microwave background. Both
indicate that the amount of […]

Denier can refer to:

Denier, a unit of measurement of linear density of textile fiber mass; see Units of textile measurement#Denier

Denier, a French coin created by Charlemagne; see Denier (coin)

Denier, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in France

Denier, someone who denies something; see denial

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The livre tournois (”Tours pound”) was:

one of numerous currencies used in France in the Middle Ages; and

a money of account (i.e., a monetary unit used in accounting) used in France in the Middle Ages and the early modern period.

Circulating currency
The denier tournois coin was initially minted by the abbey of Saint Martin in […]

Casper is a freestyle skateboarding trick that was invented by Bobby “Casper” Boyden in the late 1970s. Bo back foot from the board and uses his front foot to turn the board back to its normal position with a motion that resembles an impossible. Note that the skateboarder’s feet never touch the ground during this […]

The stuiver was a coin used in the Netherlands until the Napoleonic Wars. It was worth 16 penning or 8 duit. Twenty stuivers equalled a gulden, which made the stuiver the Dutch equivalent to the shilling.

After decimalisation of Dutch currency, the name “stuiver” was preserved as a nickname for the five-cent coin until the introduction […]

The halfpenny coin was the smallest denomination of the Irish pound which was decimalised on Decimal Day, February 15, 1971 it was one of three new designs introduced all in bronze. The coin suffered from the effects of inflation and very few were produced beyond the initial run for 1971. The coin was removed from […]

An Airman’s coin is a challenge coin awarded to trainees and officer candidates in the United States Air Force once they have completed most of the requirements to graduate from their respective training programs (Basic Military Training, Air Force ROTC, or Officer Training School). The coin features on one side the image of an eagle […]