coins have been made in special shapes, including guitars, pyramids, and maps. There is a list with more unusual shapes of non-circulating commemorative...
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level surface. Another application of curves of constant width is for coinage shapes, where regular Reuleaux polygons are a common choice. The possibility...
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accurately approximated by Reuleaux polygons. They have been applied in coinage shapes. If P {\displaystyle P} is a convex polygon with an odd number of sides...
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Coins of the pound sterling (redirect from UK coinage)
The standard circulating coinage of the United Kingdom, British Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories is denominated in pennies and pounds...
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Coin (redirect from Ancient coinage)
in several shapes, including squares, polygons, and wavy edged circles with 8 and 12 waves. Historically, a considerable variety of coinage metals (including...
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Panormus, modern Palermo). The coinage that these communities produced is known as Siculo-Punic coinage. Like the coinage produced by the Greek communities...
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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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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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Coins of Ireland (redirect from Irish coinage)
Aethelred II of England, and as the Anglo-Saxon coinage of the period changed its design every six years, the coinage of Sitric followed this pattern. Following...
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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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Mint (facility) (redirect from Coinage mint)
closely with the history of coins. In the beginning, hammered coinage or cast coinage were the chief means of coin minting, with resulting production...
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Money portal Achaemenid coinage Ancient Chinese coinage Ancient Greek coinage Coinage of India Parthian coinage Sasanian coinage Neiburger and Spohn, writing...
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The earliest coinage of Asia is also the oldest coinage of the world.[citation needed] Coins were invented several times independently of each other. The...
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Silver coin (redirect from Silver coinage)
Silver coins are one of the oldest mass-produced form of coinage. Silver has been used as a coinage metal since the times of the Greeks; their silver drachmas...
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Post-Mauryan coinage refers to the period of coinage production in India following the breakup of the Maurya Empire (321–185 BCE). The centralized Mauryan...
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United States dollar (section Coinage Act)
official currency of the United States and several other countries. The Coinage Act of 1792 introduced the U.S. dollar at par with the Spanish silver dollar...
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California gold coinage is a broad category of privately-issued coin-like items that were used in place of official currency in the United States territory...
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Chinese coinage during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods includes some of the earliest coins produced in the world. However, they were...
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Coins of the South African rand (redirect from South African coinage)
200th anniversary of the Griqua coinage, the first coinage issued in South Africa. These coins are the same in size and shape as the 5 rand that was introduced...
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Punch-marked coins (section Greek and Achaemenid coinage in northwestern India (6th century onward))
coins, are a type of early coinage of India, dating to between about the 6th and 2nd centuries BC. It was of irregular shape. These coins are found over...
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Heart symbol (redirect from Heart (shape))
H.; Kolls, A. L. (1999). "The silphium motif adorning ancient libyan coinage: Marketing a medicinal plant". Economic Botany. 53 (2): 133–143. doi:10...
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The history of Saxon coinage or Meissen-Saxon coinage comprises three major periods: the high medieval regional pfennig period (bracteate period), the...
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History of coins in Italy (redirect from Coinage of Italy)
has a long history of different coinage types, which spans thousands of years. Italy has been influential at a coinage point of view: the medieval Florentine...
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same shape and size as their UK counterparts. After this, however, all new denominations or redesigned coins were of different sizes to the UK coinage. The...
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The Old Head coinage or Veiled Head coinage were British coins struck and dated between 1893 and 1901, which featured on the obverse a portrait by Thomas...
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Gold coin (redirect from Gold coinage)
the main metal for their coins. The most valuable of all Persian minted coinage still remains the gold drams[clarification needed], minted in 1 AD as a...
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While Shankar Goyal mentions it is unclear whether Panini was referring to coinage, other scholars conclude that Panini uses the term rūpa to mean a piece...
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The coinage of Cales concerns coins minted in Cales, a city in Campania, the most important urban center of the ancient Italic population of the Ausones...
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than coinage, which may benefit our country and enrich the people ... It is only now that we have issued decrees about the minting of metal coinage." To...
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Umayyad Caliphate (redirect from Umayyad coinage in Palestine)
solidus was replaced in Syria and Egypt with the dinar. Initially, the new coinage contained depictions of the caliph as the spiritual leader of the Muslim...
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