They're often valuable for vastly different reasons â like the World War II-era coins minted from atypical metals, or double-printed pennies â but each one is easy to miss if you're not paying attention. See also: Californian Couple Finds $10 Million Worth of Gold Coins in Tin Can.
A subsistence economy is a non-monetary economy which relies on natural resources to provide for basic needs, through hunting, gathering, and subsistence agriculture.
noun. 1  1(chiefly in historical or literary contexts) a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized. âHis belief that slaves were better off in American chains than in African freedom reflected anthropological ignorance expressed in the blind assumption that all Africans were savages.â. 2  2A brutal or vicious person.