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He debased the "dinaro" and its fractions, whereas the "grosso" was kept at 98.5% pure silver to ensure its usefulness for foreign trade.
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Tom is later debased to animal status, as he comes to be referred to as the whelp, a denunciatory term for a young man.
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In 1863, silver coins below 5 lire were debased from 90% to 83.5% and silver 20 centesimi coins were introduced.
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Every trace of nobility, piety, education, reason is persecuted in the most hateful and base manner by a bunch of debased menials.
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In 1982, the 1 coin was changed to dodecagonal, and the 5 was further debased to a cupro-nickel alloy.
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Kitsch, using for raw material the debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture, welcomes and cultivates this insensibility.
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By the end of the series the coins had become illegible and debased, and were too thin to serve for practical commerce.
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It has, however, also been suggested that its name derives from it being worth one quarter of the late, debased "follis" of the 1080s.
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They are just symptoms of a society debased in its tastes by the constant barrage of ephemera designed to make us heedless consumers of... anything.
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Little silver coinage was issued, but in later periods the gold used was debased with silver.
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