The lesser weights correspond proportionately to the larger weights, and both of them are used, not only by mining people, but by coiners also.
This method of washing is rarely used by miners, but frequently by coiners and goldsmiths when they wash gold, silver, or copper.
The coiners of Nuremberg who mint silver, divide the bes into sixteen semunciae, but divide the semuncia into four drachmae, and the drachma into four pfennige.
It is not necessary for coiners to make absolutely pure gold, but to heat it only until such a fineness is obtained as is needed for the gold money which they are coining.
Coiners who mint silver also divide the bes of the lesser weights in the same way as the greater weights; our people, indeed, divide it into sixteen semunciae, and the semuncia into eighteen units of four siliquae each.
He naturally supposed that our hero was acquainted with the unlawful practises of the gang of coiners with which he was connected.
They had acquired a less honourable renown as coiners of bad money.
It was impossible for the separatists to pray together without precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods.
Coiners give regular mercantile names to the different branches of their trade, and to the various kinds of false money which they circulate: such as flats, or figs, or fig-things.
There is no imminent danger of children's becoming either coiners or fraudulent distillers; but an ingenious preceptor will not be much puzzled in applying the remarks that have been made, to the subject of education.
It has frequently occurred, for ill-disposed persons to profit by the ill-name of a haunted house, as in the case of gangs of coiners and thieves, who raise such reports in order to secure impunity in their haunts.
There are still many persons engaged in the decomposition and transmutation of metals;--viz: the coiners of base money.
It was the custom of the Anglo-Saxon coinersto put their names on the coins which they struck.
As Mr. Worsaaee says, the Danish coiners increased to fifty in number from the reign of Aethelred to Edward the Confessor, and the greater number exercised this vocation at York and Lincoln.
Canute the Great before the Danish conquest of England was completed, the number of Scandinavian coinersarose rapidly, with the Danish power, and the names of forty or fifty may be found on the coins of Ethelred alone.
In the eighth and ninth centuries the names of the coiners are purely Anglo-Saxon.
They purchase from the subterraneous coiners 36 shillings’-worth of copper (in nominal value) for 20 shillings, so that the profit derived from the cheating is very large.
Rather than thus publicly confess their incompetency, they were satisfied to execute only one-third of the copper coinage, leaving it to the forgers and private coiners to supply the rest.
The profits of this illegal trade were of course very large; and so long as the coiners could find a vend for their productions, they went on producing.
The story of "The Coiners of Leal" relates to the ruins of an old castle, which was said to be haunted by a hell-hound.
On this the coiners gathered round Monsieur Giraumont, shook him by the hand, and commenced many questions with a view to ascertain his skill.
Murmuring and tremulous the coiners scrambled on the table and examined the dead man.
In Germany, even in the seventeenth century, this horrible punishment was inflicted on coiners and counterfeiters.
Serpents with female faces, felonies Of coiners and of robbers, he descried; Next broken bottles saw of many sorts, The types of servitude in sorry courts.
XC "With coiners him you oftentimes may see Harbour in some obscure and close repair.
Then Noël reminded us that coiners have moulds, and Oswald went and bought a pair of wooden lemon squeezers for sevenpence three farthings.
But now I've got this stuff we can begin to be coiners right away.
So she put him to bed, for fear of his catching his death of cold, and the inveterate gang of coiners had to go to their fell lair without him.
In his far-sightedness he remembered that coiners use water, so he bought two enamelled iron bowls at sixpence halfpenny the two.
We playedcoiners for several days, and all learned to give the alarm, but we were beginning to feel it was time for something new.
It was not until the world of coiners was finally broken up that he related his experiences.
He did not really expect to see the coiners at their fell work, though he had pretended to when we were talking in the tree.
Dicky thought it ought to be something fat, because coiners are always a desperate gang; and the machinery they make the coins with is so heavy and handy for knocking down detectives.
We wanted to be detectives, and we thought a gang of coiners infested your house, so we looked through your window last night.
Meanwhile, at every session of the Old Bailey the most terrible example of coiners and clippers was made.
Dartmoor was long an active centre for coiners and bank-note forgers; some of the prisoners possessed uncommon skill in these nefarious processes.
Wherever a ruined tower appeared firm enough for a forge and bellows, wherever there was abundance of wood for burning, and a road to bring good money to the mint and carry away bad, there a band of coiners nestled.
These parts are panic-stricken, since Anicza betrayed the coiners in the Lucsia Cavern, we have been saddled with a whole heap of calamities.
As, however, we coiners cannot call God to witness, for by our trade we have rejected him, our oaths cannot ascend to Heaven but must descend elsewhere.
The great company of coiners had arranged for the last evening before their separation a sumptuous feast in this subterranean hall.
It is sometimes called the Mint, or Money Church, because of a gang of coiners having once made it their head-quarters.
If you be not of the nobility, then you must be either coiners or smugglers.
There being a likelihood that coiners' implements, if not the coiners themselves, might be found in the house, it was decided to break into it last night.
In the sixteenth century, coiners were hanged instead of boiled: till lately, however, the caldron which was used for this horrible purpose was visible in the market-place of Osnabrueck.
But these are not the only criminal devices to which the coinersand dealers, as well as the utterers of base money, have had recourse, for answering their iniquitous purposes.
They are sold, however, by the coiners to the large dealers at about a farthing each, or 100 per cent.
No power is directly given by any existing law, (not even by the modern Act last mentioned) though upon the most pointed information, to search the houses or workshops of coiners in the night time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coiners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
