Word: coined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attired in rough garb Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of the Philippines, stopped at a farm hut near the tip of Luzon, solicitously asked the native farmwife how her hens were laying. The woman replied they were not laying at all, offered the Governor a coin worth 10? so that he might buy eggs in the village...
Wall Street last week beheld an unusual sight-Mrs. Vincent Astor, slim and chic, standing on the running board of a large yellow automobile shaking a coin box, begging contributions...
...hovel alongside some hundred others. She changes her name to Cherie, becomes all that the name implies. So many men of so many nationalities pass through her arms that she only thinks of them, like hurdling sheep, to keep insomnia away. The money in the hollow bed-leg rises coin by coin...
...variety, can not be identified by the absence of any date. All genuine 25-cent pieces printed since 1915 were poorly engraved so that the dates tend to rub off easily. This defect is to be remedied, it was learned, by the issuance of a new model of the coin in the near future by the United States treasury...
...present spurious coins are of such perfect impressions that identification by the design is impossible for the layman. Due to lead content, however, their color tends to be darker than that of the true tokens and they can be cut more easily with a pen-knife. Anyone attempting to pass a counterfeit coin is liable to immediate arrest...