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Pages in category "Money containers". The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Burial vault (enclosure) A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffins (or caskets) decompose, and often the weight of earth on top of the coffin ...
Piggy bank (sometimes penny bank or money box) is the traditional name of a coin container normally used by children. The piggy bank is known to collectors as a "still bank" as opposed to the "mechanical banks" popular in the early 20th century. These items are also often used by companies for promotional purposes, and many financial service ...
Tudor money box. 16th century Tudor money box. A Tudor money box (or Tudor money pot) is a glazed earthenware container used in late Medieval Britain as a small, portable bank for collecting and saving money. The typical money box was a round, sealed, green-glazed pot with a vertical coin slot. These sturdy, small pots were commonly used by ...
From June 2009 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 12.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a 59.3 percent return from the S&P 500.
Container types are aluminum, glass, plastic resins 1–7, bi-metals (exempts refillables). [11] The recycling rate for beverage containers of all materials in 2011 was 82%. [12] California imposes sales tax on the CRV if the beverage is taxable. The sales tax is not refunded to consumers upon redeeming the empty containers to a recycling center.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pneumatic tube networks gained acceptance in offices that needed to transport small, urgent packages, such as mail, other paperwork, or money, over relatively short distances, within a building or, at most, within a city. Some installations became quite complex, but have mostly been superseded.
eBay office in Toronto, Canada. eBay Inc. ( / ˈiːbeɪ / EE-bay, often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide. Sales occur either via online auctions or "buy ...