As you may know, in March 2008 a web-based platform called OpenSocial was launched, designed to unify hi5 payments via a single platform meant to collect micro-transactions on the social networking web property. Since the introduction of OpenSocial, developers have been laboring to find a method to integrate and offe... |
6 June 2009
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Another piece of evidence to the fact that hobbies can help science was provided recently, as a college professor from the Netherlands, with the help of his metal detector, came upon a Celtic coin cache. The coins were made of gold and silver during Caius Julius Caesar's time (sometimes in the middle of the fir... |
14 November 2008
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Players of baKno's games for Mac can now benefit (so to speak) from the ability to purchase (virtual) coins which they can use whenever their game trial expires. The new "pay per play" solution is an alternative to purchasing a traditional shareware license, baKno reveals.Yes, it's no joke. You buy coins wh... |
18 July 2008
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Those Vikings were like working bees. A Viking treasure made of 472 ancient silver coins was found near Sweden's main international airport, Arlanda, Stockholm, last week, showing that Vikings used foreign currency much earlier than previously believed. The 1,150-year-old treasure comprises mainly Arabic coins a... |
11 April 2008
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When this treasure was buried, during the fifth century BC, western Turkey formed the kingdom of Lydia and its kings had the fame of being the world's richest monarchs. This was especially true for the last Lydian king, Croesus.Herodotus wrote about Lydia, Croesus and his inexpugnable capital, Sardes, said to be... |
25 March 2008
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The dime is a coin worth ten cents, or one tenth of a United States dollar, the smallest in diameter and thinnest of all currently circulating coins. These days, there's not much you can buy with a dime in the US, unless you happen to have an exclusive model, that's worth $1.9 million.The $1.9 million dime... |
28 July 2007
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For the archaeologists, it has been a surprise to discover how powerful the influence of the Romans was in Britain. Ancient coins have been discovered on a beach in the Western Isles (Outer Hebrides), in the extreme northwest of Scotland. Archaeologists dated the pieces of copper alloy in a period around mid 4th Cent... |
13 July 2007
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The discovery of the greatest sunken treasure ever, estimated at $500 million, has just been announced, and things got heated up. Spain is already investigating whether the treasure was stolen from its waters or from a shipwrecked Spanish galleon, as announced by the Spanish government yesterday.The treasure was dis... |
22 May 2007
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Deep-sea explorers have encountered what seems to be the richest sunken treasure ever found: about 500,000 of colonial-era silver and gold coins, which could worth $500 million.The trove was discovered on a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean. "For this colonial era, I think [the find] is unprecedented. I don't know... |
19 May 2007
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