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  2. Steve Divnick - Wikipedia

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    According to documentation on the Spiral Wishing Well website, the first Well they sold was in 1985 to the United States Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio where it has had over $2 million tossed into it. Many locations passed the $100,000 amount. The first one-day record was $532 at a Kmart store, another at a small school that raised $7,352, and ...

  3. Wishing well - Wikipedia

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    The wish would then be granted by the guardian or dweller, based upon how the coin would land at the bottom of the well. If the coin landed heads up, the guardian of the well would grant the wish, but the wish of a tails up coin would be ignored. It was thus potentially lucky to throw coins in the well, but it depended on how they landed.

  4. Coins as votive offering - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by the film, some tourist attractions renamed their existing pools such as life release ponds "Wishing Pools", or constructed new ones. [2] Many tourists proactively throw coins into any water-filled receptacle within scenic areas. Apart from designated wishing wells, fountains, water tanks, and fish ponds all become targets.

  5. Archaeologists in Germering unearthed a 3,000-year-old wooden wishing well, the Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection said in a Dec. 20 news release. Unlike today’s coin-filled fountains ...

  6. United States Mint coin sizes - Wikipedia

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    In particular, many silver coins changed in the 1870s. [4] The figures cited in the tables are representative of the series, and are generally the latest, or most common, figures for a given coin type. The largest coin ever minted by the US Mint was the 2019 Apollo 50th anniversary 5ounce silver dollar, weighing 155.517 grams, and 76.2 mm in ...

  7. Votive offering - Wikipedia

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    Votive paintings in the ambulatory of the Chapel of Grace, in Altötting, Bavaria, Germany Mexican votive painting of 1911; the man survived an attack by a bull. Part of a female face with inlaid eyes, Ancient Greek Votive offering, 4th century BC, probably by Praxias, set in a niche of a pillar in the sanctuary of Asclepios in Athens, Acropolis Museum, Athens Bronze animal statuettes from ...

  8. America the Beautiful silver bullion coins - Wikipedia

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    A new coining press from Germany, the Grabener 1000 press, was installed on March 1, 2010, at the Philadelphia Mint for use in producing the America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coins. The press provides up to 1,000 metric tons (1,100 short tons ) of pressure for each strike and can produce in excess of 1 million coins per year.

  9. List of most expensive coins - Wikipedia

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    Large Date $5 United States Garrett Heritage Auctions: January 2012 $1,380,000 1797 O-101a 50C United States Norweb Stack's Bowers: July 2008 $1,380,000 1796 No Stars $2.50 United States Parmelee, Brock, Ward, Rogers ANR June 2005 $1,351,250 1833 Large Date $5 United States King Farouk of Egypt, Pittman Sotheby's/Stack's Bowers: May 2016 $1,322,500

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