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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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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Greek coinage of Italy and Sicily (category Ancient currencies)
of these Greek coinages evolved under Roman rule, and can be classified as the first Roman provincial currencies. A common theme in the Italiote coinage...
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portal Agriculture in ancient Rome Roman finance Roman currency Roman Republican currency Roman provincial currency Ancient Greek economy Byzantine economy...
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Outline of ancient Rome (redirect from Roman Republic and Empire)
ancient Rome Roman currency Roman Republican currency Roman provincial currency Roman metallurgy Mining in ancient Rome Mining in Roman Britain Apuleius...
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height, and the depiction of the deities were also documented on Roman provincial currency issued by the city of Megalopolis. The bust is currently housed...
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Rhodian coinage (section End of the local currency)
Rhodes. Money portal Numismatics portal League of the Islanders Roman provincial currency Richard M. Berthold (2009). Rhodes in the Hellenistic Age. Cornell...
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The history of Canadian currencies began with Indigenous peoples in Canada prior to European contact, when they used items such as wampum and furs for...
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History of coins in Italy (redirect from History of Italian currency)
of these Greek coinages evolved under Roman rule, and can be classified as the first Roman provincial currencies. The brief period of Etruscan coinage...
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money supply and the banking sector. Although Roman coinage had long been fiat money or fiduciary currency, general economic anxieties came to a head under...
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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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Byzantine coinage (redirect from Byzantine currency)
Byzantine currency, money used in the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the West, consisted of mainly two types of coins: gold solidi and hyperpyra...
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Renminbi (redirect from People's Currency)
Rénmínbì; lit. 'People's Currency'; symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB), also known as the Chinese yuan, is the official currency of the People's Republic...
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Nepalese rupee (redirect from Nepali currency)
The Nepali rupee (Nepali: रुपैयाँ, Roman: Rupaiyām̐; symbol: रु.; code: NPR) is the official currency of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. The...
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the Roman Empire (Routledge, 2000), pp. 59–60. Millar, A Greek Roman Empire, p. 95. MacMullen, "Provincial Languages," p. 4. MacMullen, "Provincial Languages...
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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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The Romans constructed aqueducts throughout their Republic and later Empire, to bring water from outside sources into cities and towns. Aqueduct water...
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Magna Graecia (section Roman Era)
of these Greek coinages evolved under Roman rule, and can be classified as the first Roman provincial currencies. The Greek colonists of Magna Graecia...
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Ptolemaic coinage (category Currencies of ancient Africa)
coinage. After Egypt was annexed into the Roman Empire and the Ptolemaic dynasty ceased to exist, its currency still remained in circulation. This was the...
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Banknote (redirect from Bill (currency))
issue their own banknotes, and notes issued by provincial banking companies were the common form of currency throughout England, outside London. The Bank...
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Spanish real (category Currencies of Spain)
/ɹeɪˈɑl/ Spanish: /reˈal/) (meaning: "royal", plural: reales) was a unit of currency in Spain for several centuries after the mid-14th century. It underwent...
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A Roman governor was an official either elected or appointed to be the chief administrator of Roman law throughout one or more of the many provinces constituting...
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This is a list of Roman army units and bureaucrats. Accensus – Light infantry men in the armies of the early Roman Republic, made up of the poorest men...
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Ancient drachma (category Currencies of Greece)
Greece, the drachma (Greek: δραχμή, romanized: drachmḗ, [drakʰmέː]; pl. drachmae or drachmas) was an ancient currency unit issued by many city-states during...
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within the bounds of Roman law. The tetradrachm coinage minted at the Ptolemaic capital of Alexandria continued to be the currency of an increasingly monetized...
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Septimius Severus (redirect from Roman emperor Severus (Lucius Septimius Severus))
"Libyan by race", by the Roman historian and senator Cassius Dio. Due to his family background he is considered the first provincial emperor as he was the...
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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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Kingdom of Soissons (redirect from Roman kingdom of Soissons)
using the title of dux (a provincial military commander), but the neighboring Germanic tribes referred to him as "King of the Romans"; hence one of the nicknames...
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List of Byzantine emperors (redirect from East Roman Emperor)
of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who...
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