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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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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History of money (redirect from History of currency)
appeared with the new emperor's portrait.[citation needed] Roman currency for most of Roman history consisted of gold, silver, bronze, orichalcum and copper...
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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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(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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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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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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the pegged (fixed exchange rate) currencies, there are only 130 currencies that are independent or pegged to a currency basket. Dependencies and unrecognized...
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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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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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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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two other copper denominations, the tournesion and the follaro. Roman currency Roman finance Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium...
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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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Sino-Roman relations c. 1st century BC – 1453 Between the Roman Empire and the Han dynasty, as well as between the later Eastern Roman Empire and various...
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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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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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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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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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Rica Salvadoran colón – El Salvador Continental currency – United States Conventionsthaler – Holy Roman Empire Córdoba – Nicaragua Crown Austrian crown...
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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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History of coins in Italy (redirect from History of Italian currency)
and Etruscan civilization, the Romans introduced a widespread currency throughout Italy. Unlike most modern coins, Roman coins had intrinsic value. The...
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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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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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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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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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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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Uncia (coin) (redirect from Ounce (roman coin))
was a Roman currency worth one twelfth of an as. By derivation, it was also the name of a bronze coin valued at 1⁄12 of an as made during the Roman Republic...
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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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