Collectors don't use "tails" & "heads", they use the terms reverse & this
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Coin Collection Terminology - DeMilked  By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. ... These words are highly used while understanding the coins, looking for them, ... Coin collecting albums for kids also contain many words and terms that are ... Edge: Coins has two faces obverse (front / heads) and reverse (back / tails). .... Don't have an account yet?
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World Coin Collecting: Questions and Answers 1  Jul 4, 2011 ... Telling the obverse from the reverse isn't always easy, though. ... and Venezuela, there is a person on the obverse (which is why we often call it the "heads" side). ... Here are some tricks that I use to help reduce the amount of coin ... If you have 5 coins from Chile, they take up 4 spots on one row and 1 spot...
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Obverse and reverse - Wikipedia  Obverse and its opposite, reverse, refer to the two flat faces of coins and some other two-sided objects, including paper money, flags, seals, medals, drawings, old master prints and other works of art, and printed fabrics. In this usage, obverse means the front face of the object and reverse means ... The obverse of a coin is commonly called heads, because it often depicts the...
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A Mule Coin Makes A Fascinating Treasure For Error Coin Collectors  Have you ever heard anybody use the term mule coin? A mule coin is a coin that has an obverse (heads side) and reverse (tails side) design that wouldn't ordinarily go together on the same coin. ... 27 Photos The Clintons Don't Want You To See ... mule. i am in california. they dont seem interested in any coins but US coins.
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World Coin Collecting: Coin Collecting Terminology  Feb 12, 2011 ... ... magazine called "Numismatic News", you'll have a better idea what they are. ... Most people just call these "front" and "back", or "heads" and "tails", but the ... For coins that don't have an obvious obverse or reverse, I'm unsure how ... In the United States, we usually use a grading scale that goes from Poor...
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Rugrats / Headscratchers - TV Tropes  Or P/L were in the first with Angelica in another car since she seems to ..... as petty as not turning your socks inside out when you sent them through the wash? .... I guess the time machine worked so that the babies went to the future, but aged ..... is so simple a child could do it (though he later redacts this to "young adult").
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Jeopary Questions page 1841 - WASHINGTON STATE - TriviaBistro ...  "OLD": Because its tail is usually clipped, this shaggy dog is also called a ... John Galsworthy refused this honor in 1918, so we don't have to call him Sir John.
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Separated by a Common Language: bills, notes  Jun 22, 2006 ... Americans (and Canadians!) have particular words for their coins: ... R?" I'd call these the names of the notes/bills, rather than slang ... Here's a site on British money slang that may be of interest, if you like .... Like Americans, we also use the word "buck" to refer to the amount $1. ... Loonie=coin, loony=crazy.
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Glossary of rail transport terms - Wikipedia  Rail terminology is a form of technical terminology. The difference between the American term .... or branch, which allows trains to turn around for the return trip without reversing or shunting. ..... End-cab switcher: A switching locomotive with no short hood, thus having its cab forming ..... These may also be termed railcars.
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Common Errors in English Usage by Paul Brians - Washington State ...  Note carefully labels like "dial. ... It is by no means an exclusively British dictionary. .... Spanish words not completely assimilated into English like pinata and nino ...... Various uses of "architect" as a verb have been around for a long time, but ... to have this meaning, most readers will regard its use in this sense today not as...
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British and American terms | Oxford Dictionaries  British and American English often use different terms to describe the same thing. Here's a list of ... reverse the charges, call collect ... Commonly confused words.
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An Airplane Is Not A Bird | Invention and Technology  The Greeks told the story as a kind of parable; no one seems to have noted that .... A. E. Housman wrote: A tail behind, a trunk in front,/ Complete the usual elephant. ... Though none of these became operational, the basic configuration of the...
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Let's Keep Some of the Old Verb Forms - Daily Writing Tips  Apr 2, 2008 ... I have no way of knowing if he's a native English speaker, but I'm pretty sure that he is. It may be that ... Some things apply to the KISS concept. (Again for the acronymically challenged among us, Keep It Simple Stupid.) For instance .... The context of usage goes a long way to define its 'rightness'. This is not...
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20 Words That Don't Mean What They Used To | Mental Floss  Jun 11, 2015 ... In some instances, these developments can lead to words gaining ... Alienate, like alien, is derived from the Latin word alienus, which ... Nowadays when we say we're down in the dumps, we mean that ... In that sense, it probably has its roots in an earlier old Dutch word, domp, meaning haze or mist....
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Language Log: April 2006 Archives - University of Pennsylvania  Apr 30, 2006 ... That's pretty much the radio version of the inverted meaning in TV closings ...... starboard have the virtue of being completely unambiguous in this respect. ... people may have been more familiar with ships and nautical terminology. ..... that an airplane is like a ship and has a port side and a starboard side.
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Wordwizard  View topic - coupe and saloon / American vs. British ...  There was also a type of carriage called a "fly" but I don't know if this was similar. .... times while 'the little taxicab that could' did battle on the mean streets of NYC. ... traffic, that it was like an 'H.' Here was first, second, . . and you .... meant 'bottom of the sack' which to me ain't much better than a dead end!
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Free Flashcards about FAMILIAR PHRASES - StudyStack  IT FOLLOWS "HEADS I WIN" IN AN EXPRESSION MEANING THE GAME IS FIXED, TAILS YOU LOSE. THIS EXPRESSION GOT REVERSED FROM ITS...
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Difference between British and American words, different words for ...  Difference between British and American words, different words for same ... The English often call the toilet the LOO or, an even more "slangy" term is the BOG. ... It is also a term used in order to straighten teeth (in both countries I believe). ... The word suspenders in the US almost always refers to those stretch bands that...
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Ask me a trivia question - Discussion on Topix  Sep 6, 2009 ... Dollar poker, which uses serial numbers, is often called this; yeah, that's it! ... US... and not the reality ow weightlessness so that's why I asked.
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They Found a Mysterious Box in a Dumpster  What Was In It Baffles ...  Jul 5, 2015 ... The drawings look like a weird mix of alien and biblical. ... Would love to have the source but I realize this site is as much about entertainment as anything. ... appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. .... It's similar to this dumpster-discovery, but SO much better and weirder!
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Cool Words - Philoman's Home Page - Tripod  These are the words you could find on this page: ... Literally, an asterisk is a small star, reflecting its origin from Late Latin ... How did these two very different meanings evolve? ... Caveat emptor is a legal principle meaning "let the buyer beware." ..... "She made no bones about it, saying just that it was time to sell the stock.