It was restricted to bronze and silver low-denomination coins.

In 1864, the Mint successfully introduced low-denomination coins, whose intrinsic worth did not approach their face value.

- who dumped their low-denomination coins 30 years ago, will be laughing at our senseless jingling.

From 477 onwards, the Vandals produced their own coinage, restricted to bronze and silver low-denomination coins.

The alloy of copper and nickel, called cupronickel, is used in low-denomination coins, often for the outer cladding.

Others pay in a way that creates inconvenience for the collector - for instance, by paying the entire amount in low-denomination coins.

The Mint has also supplied 230 million low-denomination coins to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in 2006.

Rather than representing a specific monetary value, it was applied colloquially to a range of low-denomination coins in the sense of "coin" or "piece of money".

In 1871, Congress alleviated the problem by passing legislation allowing the Treasury to redeem unlimited quantities of nickels and other low-denomination coins when presented in lots of not less than $20.

The term "sou", now used in Quebec in lieu of the word cent for the English language word penny (because cent means one hundred in French), was at the time common slang for a low-denomination coin.

Coins from later periods were a silver threepence from the reign of Elizabeth I and a silver penny from Charles I. Only low-denomination coins were found from the 18th century and later, including a 10-pfennig piece from Germany dated 1901.