A left-facing profile of Franklin D. Roosevelt occupies most of the obverse space. Inside the smooth rim in front of Roosevelt’s face is the word LIBERTY. IN GOD WE TRUST in smaller letters is positioned below the chin. The date is squeezed into the space inside the rim and beneath the neck truncation, to the right of the designer’s initials JS (The Cold War that followed World War II heightened public fears about the Soviet Union, and a rumor spread that John Sinnock’s initials JS, appearing under Roosevelt’s profile, referred …

8 “Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? 9 “When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost!’ 10 “In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
Parallel Translations:
International Standard Version (©2008)
“Or suppose a woman has ten …

What is the name for the money they used in Ancient Greece?
Before 600 B.C. there was no monetary system in Greece, so they utilized the barter system. This was a system of trading goods and services for other goods or services. By 500 B.C., each city-state began minting their own coin. A merchant usually took coins from their own city only. Visitors had to find a money changer to exchange their coins. Typically a 5-6% fee was charged to exchange visitor’s currency to the local currency.
Initially a drachma was a …

It is said that only coin collectors know about this fact. You can still find about 40% silver-clad half dollars. You can ask me how? This is the answer.
If you go to savings companies and banks, you should buy rolls of halves. The price of each 10.00$. In case you can afford to buy a lot, do it. In case it is beyond your means, try to buy as many as possible. The main idea is - the more you buy the more you will find. After that take them …

Adoring silver coins people always try to provide coins with superior power. They believe in happiness and success the coins bring. Sometimes coins seal the fate. For example for lucky Illinois sheriff William Gribble the silver eagle was determining. There were two candidates for this post and both collected equal votes. His contender suggested flipping a coin and letting it to decide their fortune. “Heads or tails?”, Gribble choose heads and was lucky to get the post.

In addition there is a good omen to find the coin on the ground. …