Burnt

burnt
Term for a coin that has been over-dipped to creating surfaces that are dull.
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burnt Slang for a coin that has been over-dipped to the point were the surfaces are dull and lackluster.

Burnt
Slang term for a coin that has been over-dipped. On such a coin, the surfaces are dull and lackluster.
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The town was burnt by Hannibal in B.C. 203.
On the coinage of this city see K. Regling's monograph Terina in the Programm zum Winckelmannsfeste, 1906, and H. v. Fritze and H. Gaebler in Nomisma, i. pp. 20 sqq., Berlin, 1907.

On 31 March 1873 the town was almost entirely burnt down.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Marie Curie discovered in a piece of pitchblende ore containing uraninite from Joachimsthal the element radium, ...

The discoloration may have been caused by burnt wood or sawdust, charcoal particles or sulfides. Even the high temperature of the annealing furnaces often cannot rid the planchet of these particles.

- An area on a coin, often rather long, that has a discolored, streaky look. This is the result of impurities or foreign matter in the dies. One theory is that burnt wood was rolled into the strips from which the planchets were cut, ...

The temple was burnt by Darius in B.C. 494 (Hdt. vi. 19), and lay in ruins till the reign of Alexander the Great. After the siege of B.C. 334 the restored democracy determined to rebuild it: see Haussoullier, Milet et le Didymeion, Paris, 1902.

Nails were so scarce abandon houses were often burnt down just so the nails could be retrieved.

Serbs entered their present territory early in the 7th century AD, settling in six distinct tribal delimitations. Teotihuacan is sacked and burnt.

Their scouts quickly learned, however, that the enemy had safely retreated to Fort Duquesne, and the British supplies and cannon was burnt by Colonel Dunbar.

To accentuate this he withdrew from any prominent role in government for a time taking a command on the Scottish border. He was there when his Savoy palace was burnt during the peasant's revolt in June 1381, ...

See also: Coin, Various, Silver, Coinage, Struck