10 sentences with 'coins'

Example sentences and phrases with the word coins and other words derived from it.


« I found a bag full of ancient coins. »

coins: I found a bag full of ancient coins.
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« The piggy bank was full of bills and coins. »

coins: The piggy bank was full of bills and coins.
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« The magician performed an impressive trick with cards and coins. »

coins: The magician performed an impressive trick with cards and coins.
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« The Persians standardised laws and issued regular coins in both silver and gold. »
« The creation of coins also made tax collection more efficient, strengthening ancient kingdoms and empires. »
« Soldiers were paid in coins captured as booty and entire armies were expected to buy their supplies as they marched rather than rely on heavy baggage trains. »
« The imperial office controlled the minting of coins, which remained the standard currency as far afield as France and England, because the coins were weighted and reliably backed by the imperial government. »
« Towards the end of his reign, Justinian simply made peace with the Persian king Khusro I by agreeing to pay an annual tribute of 30,000 gold coins a year. In the end it was less costly to spend huge sums of gold as a bribe than to pay for the wars. »
« Its Mediterranean empire generated so much wealth that Venice minted more gold coins than England and France combined, and its gold coins (ducats) were always of exactly the same weight and purity and were accepted throughout the Mediterranean as a result. »
« Also, the relative stability allowed smaller kingdoms to mint their own coins, and within a century or so (c. 1000 - 1100) much of Europe became a cash economy rather than a barter economy. This gave peasants an additional incentive to farm as much as possible. »

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