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Of or pertaining to a medal or to medals...
Money
Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to such promissory documents representing coin as are currently accepted as a medium of exchange, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; see also C.I.T. v. Kasturi & Sons Ltd., (1999) 3 SCC 346.Money, the Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edn., defines the word 'money' thus: 'In usual and ordinary acceptation. It means coins and paper currency used as circulating medium of exchange, and does not embrace notes, bonds, evidences of debt, or other personal or real estate, Lane v. Railey, 280 Ky 319, 133 SW 2d 74, 79, 81. See also Currency; Current money; Flat money; Legal tender; Near money; Scrip; Wampum. A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign Government as a part of its currency, VCC $1-2-1(24).' Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., defines it as follows: 'Money as cu...
Money Bill
Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to such promissory documents representing coin as are currently accepted as a medium of exchange, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; see also C.I.T. v. Kasturi & Sons Ltd., (1999) 3 SCC 346.Money, the Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edn., defines the word 'money' thus: 'In usual and ordinary acceptation. It means coins and paper currency used as circulating medium of exchange, and does not embrace notes, bonds, evidences of debt, or other personal or real estate, Lane v. Railey, 280 Ky 319, 133 SW 2d 74, 79, 81. See also Currency; Current money; Flat money; Legal tender; Near money; Scrip; Wampum. A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign Government as a part of its currency, VCC $1-2-1(24).' Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., defines it as follows: 'Money as cu...
Contorniate
A species of medal or medallion of bronze having a deep furrow on the contour or edge supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors...
Countermark
A mark or token added to those already existing in order to afford security or proof as an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons that it may not be opened except in the presence of all a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths Company of London to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver a mark added to an ancient coin or medal to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy...
Diesinker
An engraver of dies for stamping coins medals etc...
Effigy
The image likeness or representation of a person whether a full figure or a part an imitative figure commonly applied to sculptured likenesses as those on monuments or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals sometimes applied to portraits...
Engrailment
The ring of dots round the edge of a medal etc...
Exergue
The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal It usually contains the date place engravers name etc or other subsidiary matter...
Galvanoplastic
Of or pertaining to the art or process of electrotyping employing or produced by the process of electolytic deposition as a galvano plastic copy of a medal or the like...
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