Crossword word - ECUS
7-5-11>>> The coins are: $2.50= Quarter Eagle, $5.00= Half Eagle, $10.00= Eagle and the $20.00=Double Eagle. The US also made $1.00 & $3.00 gold coins.
As stated in the WikiAnswers: definition for ecus - Any of various old French coins, especially a silver five-franc piece. Or more precisely: any of various gold and silver coins of France, issued from the 13th through the 18th centuries, bearing the figure of a shield. ECU: is also an acronym for (E)uropean (C)urrency (U)nit
Gold coins dated 35 BC would be 2008 + 35 = 2043 years old this year
Remakes of old popular coins. Just miniture sized but made of gold and silver and were made in the 80-s
Older American gold coins are a great asset to hold. Quantitative Easing may be diminishing the value of the dollar, but gold retains its value. The Coins section of the About website gives indications of values of old gold coins.
Unless the coin is certified bullion, probably none. "Gold" coins are called such because of the resemblance and the traditional that coins were made of precious metals.But...If you're referring to an old (pre-1933) US $5 coin, it contains about 0.26 troy oz. of gold. If you're referring to one of the modern $5 bullion coins sold to investors and collectors, the denomination is artificial. These coins contain 0.10 troy oz. of gold.
There were a few types of Spanish gold coins. Escudos, cobs, doubloons, doblas, dinars, florins, reales, maravedís, solidus, tremissis, and pesetas were each types of Spanish gold coins that circulated sometime between the 5th and 18th centuries. Gold coins were preferred to silver coins because they did not corrode.
If you are talking about the coins with presidents on the face and the statue of liberty on the back, they are not made out of gold they are made out of brass. If you are talking about the old 1 dollar coins from the 1800s, they were made out of gold because of the gold rushes and the US government was looking to expand the use of gold in its coins.
Up till 2002 France used its own monetary unit called the French franc. The franc was divided into 100 centimes, which were sometimes still referred to by the medieval name "sous" in the same way that US cents are usually called "pennies" In 2002 they adopted the euro along with most other countries in the EU.
A dollar
Old French coins would be called Francs. now the currency of money there is called Eros, but very old French coins were called Francs. Singular is Franc. Plural is Francs.
Depends on the year and the coin. They may be made out of real silver or gold.