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Charon looked mildly impressed. "I don't suppose you have coins for passage. Normally, with adults, you see, I could charge your American Express, or add the ferry price to your last cable bill. But with children ... alas, you never die prepared. Suppose you'll have to take a seat for a few centuries." "Oh, but we have coins." Percy motioned to me. I quickly realized what he wanted and handed him a few drachmas. He then set four golden drachmas on the counter, part of the stash we’d found in Crusty's

This coin came from the kingdom of Macedon during the Hellenistic Period of Greece. It is made of silver and weighs approximately the same weight as three United State quarters. It marks the first appearance of a living man on a European coin. Used in Greece and Macedon, the obverse of this coin is a bust of Demetrius Poliocretes with bull’s horns and a diadem. The reverse of the coin shows the Greek god, Poseidon with his trident. The legend of the coin reads, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ, which translates

700 B.C. Lydians became the first Western Culture to use a form of currency to set values of goods. Since then, countries around the world have been using “money”, a more recently coined term, to create values in society. Money has not only become the most valued item in the world, but has also become the main motive for the working class. An inanimate object has created a world wide need causing countries to go into immaculate amounts of debt and turning third world countries to dirt. Although

Partners: John Gould & Ashton Hall TA: Jess Bases Professor Yasmin Jessa Chemistry 144 Section C 11 November 2015 Calculating the Actual Copper Amount in a Penny Introduction: In 1909, on the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, the one cent coin (penny) was introduced. Between 1864 and 1982, the penny was made of 95% copper and 5% zinc and tin. In the 1980s the cost of producing the penny grew to be higher than its face value so, in 1982 the composition of the penny was altered to have a core

Many valuable goods for centuries were traded through out all of the world. In between the mid-16th century and early 18th century, silver became a very valuable item that had effected the world and changed it economically and socially. Economically, in documents 4 and 7 it explains how silver flowed and the business of silver itself. Socially, even though in business silver was just business, it brought greed, shown in documents 1,6, and 8 to the people and government and lead to suffering to the

realistic idea and goal for eliminating pennies is because their feeble purchasing power means dealing with coins and making change to the nearest cent is an uneconomic waste of time for the nation as a whole, because majority of us are affected by it. The United States either seems to be unaware or choose to be unaware of every other nation not only eliminating pennies, but some also eliminating coins, even their neighbor Canada. It's true our past have taught us a lot and brought us here. We can't turn

A year later in 1793 the Mint produced its first circulating coins. The U.S. Mint is responsible for producing circulating coins that people use for monetary transactions. They also produce commemorative coins for people to collect. The one cent coin was first produced in 1787 by private mints. 5 years later the first U.S. pennies were created. According to the Americans for Common Cents organization, over 300 billion one cent coins have been produced since 1787. Over time, more and more people

In the poem “To the Snake” the author Denise Levertov use several writing techniques to portray money and gambling. She uses syntax, sound imagery, color imagery, figurative language, and symbolism to represent money and gambling. Symbolism is used cleverly throughout the poem to depict a number of things that would take numerous readings to see. Throughout the poem the sentences are structured so that every other sentence is indented, with exception to the first two and the last

Economist). Once a small coin can no longer be used to buy individual items at that price, but it is only used to make change, it becomes more trouble than it is worth. Canadian pennies cost “1.6 Canadian cents to manufacture, and the government expected to save $11 million a year by eliminating them”(The Economist). But that sum equivalent to 0.0006% of GDP is small change. Canadians feel that eliminating pennies is that their feeble purchasing power means dealing with coins,

STAT 200 Section 6388   Spring 2015 `  Quiz #2   Please answer all 6 big questions.  The maximum score for each question is posted at the beginning of the question, and the maximum score for the quiz is 100 points.  Make sure your answers are as complete as possible and show your work/argument.  In particular, when there are calculations involved, you should show how you come up with your answers with necessary tables, if applicable.  Answers that come straight from program software packages will