the Persians issued their own coinage, a continuation of Lydian coinage under Persian rule is likely. Achaemenid coinage includes the official imperial...
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Coin (redirect from Ancient coinage)
bullion would be the key determinant of value. In the Achaemenid Empire in the early 6th century BC, coinage was yet unknown. The barter system, as well as silver...
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Coinage of India The Coinage of India began anywhere between early 1st millennium BCE to the 6th century BCE, and consisted mainly of copper and silver...
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Bimetallism (section Achaemenid coinage)
Sigloi of Achaemenid coinage, and there is no evidence of other mints for the new Achaemenid coins during the whole time of the Achaemenid Empire. Although...
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Croeseid (category Achaemenid Empire)
Sigloi of Achaemenid coinage, and there is no evidence of other mints for the new Achaemenid coins during the whole time of the Achaemenid Empire. Although...
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which used minting technology derived from Greek coinage. Taxila Persepolis South Asia 500 BCE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE AŚMAKA AVANTĪ CEDI PUṆḌRA VAṄGA RĀḌHA SUHMA...
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The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (/əˈkiːmənɪd/; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The...
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process. Money portal Achaemenid coinage Ancient Chinese coinage Ancient Greek coinage Coinage of India Parthian coinage Sasanian coinage Neiburger and Spohn...
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BC. Design-wise, Parthian coinage was based on Seleucid and Achaemenid satrapal coinage. Achaemenid coinage Sasanian coinage Curtis 2012, pp. 76–77; Boyce...
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Apadana hoard (category Archaeology of the Achaemenid Empire)
under Achaemenid rule. The deposit did not have any Darics and Sigloi, which also suggests strongly that these coins typical of Achaemenid coinage only...
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from the inscription YHD (𐤉𐤄𐤃), "Yehud", the Aramaic name of the Achaemenid Persian province of Yehud; others are inscribed YHDH, the same name in...
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Darius the Great (category 6th-century BC Kings of the Achaemenid Empire)
administrative provinces, each governed by a satrap. He organized Achaemenid coinage as a new uniform monetary system, and he made Aramaic a co-official...
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Greek coinage seems to have had a very wide circulation in the Achaemenid Empire. Many of them were discovered in coin hoards throughout the Achaemenid Empire...
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around / Stylised fire altar; pellets around. Achaemenid coinage Parthian coinage Roman currency Byzantine coinage Darley 2018, p. 1044. Darley & Canepa 2018...
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Arses of Persia (category 4th-century BC Kings of the Achaemenid Empire)
Arses, who was portrayed as the last king of the Achaemenid royal house. There is no dynastic coinage of Artaxerxes IV, but it is thought he may be depicted...
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Pharnabazus II (category Achaemenid satraps of Hellespontine Phrygia)
to Greece, and tens of thousands of Darics, the main currency in Achaemenid coinage, were used to bribe the Greek states to start a war against Sparta...
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Persepolis (category Achaemenid cities)
under Achaemenid rule. The deposit did not have any Darics and Sigloi, which also suggests strongly that these coins typical of Achaemenid coinage only...
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Achaemenid coinage Drachma Seleucid coinage Parthian coinage Sasanian coinage Arab–Sasanian coinage THE SAFAVID PERIOD 1502-1722 THE AFSHARID AND ZAND...
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of jewellery. Hoards of hacksilver are also well known in pre and post-coinage antiquity, in European and Near Eastern contexts. The Cisjordan Corpus...
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had minted coins in the past. Coinage of Side Achaemenid coinage Bithynian coinage Ptolemaic coinage Seleucid coinage Money portal Numismatics portal...
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regulations on coinage different from Achaemenid Persia on several aspects. Achaemenid rulers did not try to unify standards for the coinage, and they allowed...
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The coinage metals comprise those metallic chemical elements and alloys which have been used to mint coins. Historically, most coinage metals are from...
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Corinthian War (category Wars involving the Achaemenid Empire)
city-states comprising Thebes, Athens, Corinth and Argos, backed by the Achaemenid Empire. The war was caused by dissatisfaction with Spartan imperialism...
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Chinese cash coinage. Asia portal Money portal Numismatics portal Chinese tael Chinese yuan Achaemenid currency Seleucid coinage Nabataean coinage Historical...
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Achaemenid Macedonia refers to the period in which the ancient Greek Kingdom of Macedonia was under the reign of the Achaemenid Persians. In 512/511 BC...
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Kabul hoard (section Achaemenid siglos coins)
it suggests that the idea of coinage and the use of punch-marked techniques was introduced to India from the Achaemenid Empire during the 4th century...
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Artaxerxes III (category 4th-century BC Kings of the Achaemenid Empire)
𐎠𐎼𐎫𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎠 Artaxšaçāʰ; Ancient Greek: Ἀρταξέρξης), was King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire from 359/58 to 338 BC. He was the son and successor of Artaxerxes...
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slightly earlier, and actually started with the punch-marked coinage of the Achaemenids in the Kabul/ Gandhara area. During the Mauryan period, punch-marked...
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Ancient Chinese coinage includes some of the earliest known coins. These coins, used as early as the Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BCE), took the...
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Artaxerxes II (category 5th-century BC Kings of the Achaemenid Empire)
massives subsidies. Tens of thousands of darics, the main currency in Achaemenid coinage, were used to bribe the Greek states to start a war against Sparta...
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