The punishment of counterfeiting the public securities, as well as the current
coin, is submitted of course to that authority which is to secure the value of both.
Again she held the
coin before his eyes, dazzling him with the vastness of its value.
Then he said, with a clearly modulated and rather mincing articulation: `Would it discommode you to contribute elsewhere a
coin with a somewhat different superscription?'
The Moors have some small silver
coins and also some silver slugs worth a dollar each.
Methinks now this
coined sun wears a ruddy face; but see!
If there is a discount on that
coin, I am sorry, but I am not going to make it good.
Both Clayton and Monsieur Thuran hastened weakly to examine the
coin, which had rolled from the man's hand and lay beside him.
Phoebus counted the
coins, and turning towards Jehan with solemnity, "Do you know, Jehan, that there are three and twenty sous parisis!
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal;
coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver
Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Once when the waiter was about to depart with an empty tray, the man drew a
coin from his pocket and held it forth.
He threw out a gold
coin for the valet to pick up, and all the heads craned forward that all the eyes might look down at it as it fell.
{agents de change = stockbrokers; napoleon = gold
coin worth twenty francs}