Sentence examples for pound of gold from inspiring English sources

A pound of gold is worth about twenty thousand dollars.

First, new aurei were struck at 60 to the pound of gold.

Diocletian sought to bring order into the economy by controlling wages and prices and by initiating a currency reform based upon a new gold piece, the aureus, struck at the rate of 60 to the pound of gold.

Augustus (27 bc ad 14) based the coinage on the aureus of 1/42 of a pound of gold, equivalent to 25 denarii, each of 1/84 of a pound of silver, the metals being struck almost pure.

Former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif). "bullied and hectored" Defense Department officials to ensure that two contractors who were bribing him "received their pound of gold" and profits of up to 850percentt, federal prosecutors contend in a new court filing that urges a federal judge to give Cunningham a maximum 10 years in prison when he is sentenced tomorrow.

Though New York has a long way to go to catch up with Japan, where vending machines dispense everything from umbrellas to live rhinoceros beetles to supposedly used panties, or Berlin, where you can buy half a pound of gold, we are slowly making progress.

He received 1.65 pounds of gold bars.

The police recovered seven pounds of gold, 1,188 pounds of gold ore and 4,876 pieces of diamonds.

The region began to export 30,000 pounds of gold a year to Portugal.

When customs officials searched the plane, they found three thousand pounds of gold bars.

In the peace treaty that followed, he obliged the Eastern Empire to pay the arrears of tribute, which he calculated at 6,000 pounds of gold, and he trebled the annual tribute, henceforth extorting 2,100 pounds of gold each year.