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coins in English:

1. nickel nickel


Nickel is a hard, silver-white metal.
A nickel is a five-cent coin.
This knife is made of nickel.
Batteries contain nickel; which can be used to make stainless steel for saucepans.
If I had a nickel for everytime a woman has turned me down, I'd be a rich man!

English word "coins"(nickel) occurs in sets:

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2. silver silver


He had heard wonderful stories about cities of gold with silver trees.
Copper and silver are both metals.
I buy my silver from a man who has a mine on his property.
Can you distinguish silver from tin?
My ring is silver
She couldn't be sold for gold or silver, so she just stayed there and watched.
Formerly, a book was worth its weight in silver, if not in gold.
In Shogi, silver generals, lances, knights, and pawns all promote to gold generals.
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
Nay, since you will not love, would I were growing A happy daisy, in the garden path That so your silver foot might press me going, Might press me going even unto death.
Let's shackle your feet with silver fetters.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
In Olympic competitions, a gold medal is for first place, a silver medal for second, and a bronze medal is for third place.
Sitting on the very top of the tree is a silver star surrounded by tiny lights.
You win a silver medal if you come second.