potin

Potin aimed to sell large volumes at reduced profit margins.

It is debated whether any actual silver is indeed present in potin.

For low value coins, the Celts used an alloy of copper and tin called "potin".

Nicholas Potin (a sheriff of Kent) then leased the manor.

Potin is traditionally an alloy of bronze, tin and lead, with varying quantities of each possible.

Elliott turned professional for the Helyett-Félix Potin team.

Numismatic analysis has focused on Celtic potin coins and Roman coins of the fourth century.

Subsequently, his father sent him to Paris to become an apprentice salesman at the Félix Potin grocery store.

Potin was thus a pioneer of the chain-and-branch, bulk-buying model of retail, unifying distribution and sales under the same brand.

Others, such as the cast bronze (potin) coins of Southeast England, are clearly influenced by Roman originals.

The design was created by Nicholas Potin, a government employee with the Department of Surveys, who won a national competition to design it.

Most climbers ascend Potin, Mongolia's largest glacier, but head up the southeast ridge for a more challenging ascent.

Félix Potin is the name of a French businessman and his eponymous mass-distribution retail business, founded in the mid-nineteenth century.

The Félix Potin network experienced remarkable success during the late Second Empire and early Third Republic.

When Félix Potin founded his business, a standard business model was to receive loads of goods from a manufacturer, then label and package them in store.

Third of the series, the inscribed Kadamba Potin coins were found too, but in small quantities, estimated to be around 100 pieces with four unique legend types.

Eilera (born Aurélie Potin Suau) is a French artist, singer, songwriter and formerly a guitarist.

By contrast, Félix Potin shops sold products produced and prepackaged at the chain's own factories, then sold them at standardised, publicised prices.

In the 1st century BC, the Carnutes minted coins, usually struck with dies, but sometimes cast in an alloy of high tin content called potin.

The following year he constructed a Félix Potin factory in La Villette, in the northern outskirts of Paris.

This potin coin is of the so-called Zurich type, bearing a stylization of mercury's wand on the obverse and a stag on the reverse.

Frank Winfield Woolworth's eponymous five-and-dime chain in the US was, to some extent, a revival and development of Potin's model.

While the term billon is more commonly applied to ancient Roman coinage, potin is usually used for Greek or Celtic coinage.

Eventually it was sold to Félix Potin, a Paris grocery chain owned by the Greek-born André Mentzelopoulos for about $16 million.

I ate bread and cheese every day, my accent faltering at the grumpy stares at Felix Potin until I could barely mutter the word "baguette".