- Dismayed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coins Quotes
Quotes on spare change, currency history, and small everyday money moments.
This collection of coins quotes moves from a nostalgic department-store scene of counting out small coins to memories of busking and paying for petrol with silver change. One quote even traces American currency law back to 1793.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love steakhouses. When I'm in Chicago, I know there's a Gibsons that's open late. 13 Coins at Sea-Tac Airport in Washington is a gourmet restaurant I love.
- Best Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was busking, when I was paying for petrol with silver coins or when I was sneaking into hostels so I could park my van up and sleep in it, I had the best time of my life.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.
- Guaranteeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the block chain, for the first time, we no longer need these central institutions for settlement or for guaranteeing the value of coins or for land titling. All of these functions can be replaced by a transparent public ledger that is safe from tampering and which can make value and ownership clear and open for everyone.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as standard moneys.
- Circulation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Originally, Congress provided in 1793 that all foreign coins circulating in the United States be legal tender. Indeed, foreign coins have been estimated to form 80 percent of American domestic specie circulation in 1800.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell them. That's why nothing will ever replace gold and silver coins themselves, and all investors should have them at home or in a safe deposit box.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually have a few coins in my pocket when I'm playing, but the one I use to mark my ball on the green is a special silver coin that my wife designed for me. It has our wedding date inscribed on it.
- Dating
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
- Laziness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cash as a physical entity will virtually cease to exist, with coins and checkbooks consigned to museums. As people conduct their financial transactions on hand-held devices made secure by advanced biometrics, even tipping will be done electronically.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my gap adds character. A while ago, on the street, a guy yelled, 'You could stick a gold through your front teeth!' Which meant I could put a £1 coin between them. But you can't. I've tried! Fifty-pence coins and 2-pence coins, yes. But not a pound.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020