Sentence examples for old coin from inspiring English sources

We would sort through her old coin collection, looking for wheat pennies and Indian heads.

She reached into her purse, unzipped a small pocket, and removed the old coin.

On the envelope containing the old coin is written "Hard Times token, 1837".

"It's like picking up an old coin — you think of all the hands that have held it," he said, examining some carved graffiti that had survived for centuries.

"It's a big old coin that says 'Game Changer,' " Wizards point guard John Wall said matter-of-factly to reporters hoping for more of a revelation.

"The police can shut me down for having just one old coin," says Constantine Georgiev, owner of a small bric-a-brac store in Sofia.

Mr. Clayberg, a software programmer in Middletown, Mass., had bought an old coin-operated arcade game from Mr. Riggs, the co-owner of an arcade-game shop in Tulsa, Okla.

I was quite happy with the old coin-clanking system, a master at scouring the depths of my pocketbook in the split second required to avoid the dreaded disconnect, then deftly depositing more, and still more, change.

Despite a cacophony of competing machines, I could always hear the Star Wars attract mode as soon as I wandered into any of the old coin-op arcades along Blackpool's golden mile... Anyway, check out the video above, I like the way the guy sort of stalks the machine, like he's about to murder it.

The old coins will eventually be melted down.

He also collected books, manuscripts, paintings and old coins.