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  2. Hoarding - Wikipedia

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    Other items commonly hoarded include coins considered to have an intrinsic value, such as those minted in silver, or gold, as well as collectibles, jewelry, precious metals [4] and other luxuries. According to previous [ 5 ] studies, anthropomorphism , or the propensity to attribute human characteristics to non-human items, has been associated ...

  3. Sixpence (British coin) - Wikipedia

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    William IV sixpences have a simpler reverse, composed of the words SIX PENCE in the middle, with a crown above, the date below, and a wreath surrounding. With the exception of a withdrawn 1887 issue, Victoria and Edward VII sixpences share this reverse. [24] The reverse of the 1887 issue is broadly the same as the post-1816 George III coins.

  4. Hoarding (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Commonly hoarded products include assets such as money, gold and public securities, [1] as well as vital goods such as fuel and medicine. [2] Consumers are primarily hoarding resources so that they can maintain their current consumption rate in the event of a shortage ( real or perceived ). [ 3 ]

  5. Gun money - Wikipedia

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    Pewter money is a rarer type of gun money, manufactured out of pewter, an alloy containing mostly tin, and smaller amounts of copper, antimony, bismuth and lead.Some of the coins had also a brass plug.

  6. Staffordshire Hoard - Wikipedia

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    The hoard includes almost 4,600 items and metal fragments, [8] [1] totalling 5.094 kg (11.23 lb) of gold and 1.442 kg (3.18 lb) of silver, with 3,500 cloisonné garnets [6] [9] and is the largest treasure of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver objects discovered to date, eclipsing, at least in quantity, the 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) hoard found in the Sutton Hoo ship burial in 1939.

  7. Sixpence (New Zealand coin) - Wikipedia

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    The New Zealand sixpence is a coin of the New Zealand pound issued from 1933 to 1965. Equal to twice a threepence or half a shilling, the sixpence was one of five denominations of silver coins introduced in the initial issue of New Zealand coinage in 1933.

  8. Decimal Day - Wikipedia

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    The Russian ruble was the first decimal currency to be used in Europe, dating to 1704, though China had been using a decimal system for at least 2000 years. [2] Elsewhere, the Coinage Act of 1792 introduced decimal currency to the United States, the first English-speaking country to adopt a decimalised currency.

  9. SMS language - Wikipedia

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    SMS language displayed on a mobile phone screen. Short Message Service language, textism, or textese [a] is the abbreviated language and slang commonly used in the late 1990s and early 2000s with mobile phone text messaging, and occasionally through Internet-based communication such as email and instant messaging.