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Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art.The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason".
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The 50 State quarters (authorized by Pub. L. 105–124 (text), 111 Stat. 2534, enacted December 1, 1997) was a series of circulating commemorative quarters released by the United States Mint.
Mints use hubs bearing raised images similar to the images that appear on a coin to imprint indented images onto the ends of steel rods. Those rods become the dies which strike planchets making them into coins. Hub and die errors can occur at the time the dies are made, when the dies are installed into presses, and from die deterioration during ...
In 2004, a "dot cent", as they are sometimes called, sold at auction for $207,000. The one-cent coin was sold again in the Canadiana sale for $400,000, while an example of the ten-cent piece with the dot sold for $184,000. [11] The 25¢ coin, while not as rare as the one-cent and ten-cent pieces, is still a very difficult coin to find.
A coin that has been graded and authenticated by one of numerous independent grading services. [1] See also encapsulated coin. chop-mark See banker's mark. church tokens. Also called Communion tokens. Tokens generally issued initially by Scottish parishes (die stamped one-side only to show the parish) and later in the United States and Canada.
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Between 794 and 1200 the penny was the only denomination of coin in Western Europe. Minted without oversight by bishops, cities, feudal lords and fiefdoms, by 1160, coins in Venice contained only 0.05g of silver, while England's coins were minted at 1.3g. Large coins were introduced in the mid-13th century.