A round moon stood low in the sky, pale still, and smudged with shadow, and thin at one edge like a worn coin.

A man is not a chattel, to be given and taken like a worn, base coin.

Then he reached into a corner of his carpet and dug out two enormous worn coins like some I'd seen at a museum in Sanaa.

The bulk of the circulating currency consisted of poor quality, worn coins.

Macuquina and worn coin remained to serve retail trade.

Sometimes old and worn coins were overstruck with new designs by later rulers.

Finally, a very worn coin has been identified as belonging to the Yuezhi chieftain Heraios.

The older, more worn coins were fine gold, but the newer ones were made pale by an admixture of silver or blushed red with copper.

By the end of the 1970s, most Buffalo nickels had disappeared from circulation, and the majority of engravings were performed on worn coins.

Bob examined the worn, but still shiny coin.