Roman currency for most of Roman history consisted of gold, silver, bronze, orichalcum and copper coinage. From its introduction during the Republic, in...
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Roman Republican currency is the coinage struck by the various magistrates of the Roman Republic, to be used as legal tender. In modern times, the abbreviation...
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Roman provincial currency was coinage minted within the Roman Empire by local civic rather than imperial authorities. These coins were often continuations...
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Denarius (redirect from Roman denar)
or 1⁄48 of a Roman pound. Contact with the Greeks had prompted a need for silver coinage in addition to the bronze currency that the Romans were using at...
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Euro (redirect from Euro currency)
The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the 27 member states of the European Union. This group of states is officially...
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SPQR (redirect from Roman Senate and People)
dedications of monuments and public works, and on some Roman currency. The full phrase appears in Roman political, legal, and historical literature, such as...
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United States dollar (redirect from Currency of the United States of America)
States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar...
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and the follaro. Wikimedia Commons has media related to As (coin). Roman currency Roman finance Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium...
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(gold) Talent (silver, gold) Tremissis (gold) Roman currency Roman Imperial currency Roman Republican currency Ma'ah (silver) Prutah (bronze/copper) Yehud...
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Unicode currency symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of currency symbols. A currency symbol...
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A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. A more general definition...
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Lira (redirect from Lira (currency))
name of several former currencies, including those of Italy, Malta and Israel. The term originates from the value of a Roman pound (Latin: libra, about...
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abacus. The abacus, which used Roman numerals, was ideally suited to the counting of Roman currency and tallying of Roman measures.[citation needed] The...
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Macrinus (category 3rd-century Roman emperors)
recruits to the level which had been set by Severus. Macrinus revalued the Roman currency, increasing the silver purity and weight of the denarius from 50.78...
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Pound sterling (redirect from British currency)
British pre-decimal (duodecimal) currency system, the term £sd (or Lsd) for pounds, shillings and pence referred to the Roman libra, solidus, and denarius...
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Debasement (redirect from Currency debasement)
nickel in the coin is reduced. In Roman currency, the value of the denarius was gradually decreased over time as the Roman government altered both the size...
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Didius Julianus (category 2nd-century Roman emperors)
Julianus immediately reversed Pertinax's monetary reforms by devaluing the Roman currency. Pertinax had increased the silver content of the denarius to 87%, whereas...
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[citation needed] Upon his accession, Julianus immediately devalued the Roman currency by decreasing the silver purity of the denarius from 87% to 81.5%. After...
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Reichsthaler (redirect from Holy Roman reichsthaler)
'imperial minting ordinances' defining a uniform currency standard for the states of the Holy Roman Empire. Below is a history (in terms of grams of silver)...
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Marcus Aurelius (category 2nd-century Roman emperors)
Empire. He reduced the silver purity of the Roman currency, the denarius. The persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire appears to have increased during...
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A reserve currency is a foreign currency that is held in significant quantities by central banks or other monetary authorities as part of their foreign...
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Domitian (category 1st-century Roman emperors)
greater part of Domitian's reign. Upon his accession he revalued the Roman currency dramatically. He increased the silver purity of the denarius from 90%...
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Caracalla (category 2nd-century Gallo-Roman people)
second-largest bathing complex in the history of Rome, the introduction of a new Roman currency named the antoninianus, a sort of double denarius, and the massacres...
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Septimius Severus (redirect from Roman emperor Severus (Lucius Septimius Severus))
of his successors. To maintain his enlarged military, he debased the Roman currency. Upon his accession he decreased the silver purity of the denarius from...
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ISO 4217 (redirect from Currency code)
codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual currencies and their minor units. This data...
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Kingdom of Soissons (redirect from Roman kingdom of Soissons)
de facto independent Roman remnant of the Diocese of Gaul, which existed during late antiquity as a rump state of the Western Roman Empire until its conquest...
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principal copper coin in Roman currency, was also divided into 12 unciae. Again, the abacus was ideally suited for counting currency. The first column was...
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Pertinax (category 2nd-century Roman emperors)
and youths Commodus kept for his sexual pleasures. He reformed the Roman currency dramatically, increasing the silver purity of the denarius from 74%...
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Coinage reform of Augustus (category 20s BC in the Roman Empire)
The coinage reform of Augustus refers to the reform of Roman currency undertaken by Augustus in 23 BC. Augustus brought the minting of gold and silver...
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In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the western provinces of the Roman Empire, collectively, during any period in which they were administered...
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