Sentence examples for punch marks from inspiring English sources

Within a short time, the issuing authorities began putting their own validating punch marks on the pellets, thus producing coins as opposed to bullion.

The Western Chalukyas minted punch-marked gold pagodas with Kannada and Nagari legends which were large, thin gold coins with several varying punch marks on the obverse side.

The earliest coins were made of electrum, a natural mixture of gold and silver, and were crude, bean-shaped ingots bearing a primitive punch mark certifying to either weight or fineness or both.

The upper surface of the blank, where slag and oxide accumulated, had to be "turned" off, or drilled out, presumably by a tool like a carpenter's bit, and the centre punch mark to accommodate the tool point is characteristic of Ptolemaic, Seleucid, and Greek imperial coins.

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I had to walk from one end of the dock to the other every 15 minutes, insert a key that hung on a pipe into my clock and turn it, causing a punch mark to appear on the card inside to prove that Id done my duty.

These earliest coins were punch marked rectangular pieces of silver known as kahavanu.

Find top dead centre by turning the engine over until the punch mark on the crankshaft lines up with the arrow on the crankcase (see picture).

In the initial phase of a new scoring system rushed to life after the Salt Lake City Skate Scandal, judges anonymously punch their marks into a computer that randomly selects those that form the final tally.

The workers were searching the small rectangles that voters punch in marking the ballots.

And it's hard to imagine the acerbic but genteel Mr. Gurney engaging in the semiviolent sex act or executing the fully violent knockout punch that mark the nadir of Platt's frustrations.