The history of ancient Iberian coinage begins as early as the fifth century BC, but widespread minting and circulation in the Iberian peninsula did not...

The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods: the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic...

The Iberians (Latin: Hibērī, from Greek: Ἴβηρες, Iberes) were an ancient people settled in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian peninsula, at...

Roman history consisted of gold, silver, bronze, orichalcum and copper coinage. From its introduction during the Republic, in the third century BC, through...

Sasanian coinage Sasanian coinage was produced within the domains of the Iranian Sasanian Empire (224–651). Together with the Roman Empire, the Sasanian...

and Celticized peoples inhabiting an area in the central-northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the final centuries BC. They were explicitly mentioned...

rich in wines, a character which it still preserves. Via Augusta Ancient Iberian coinage Archeological Museum of Seville Plin. iii. 1. s. 3. Dyer 1857,...

traded as least as far as Gades and Tartessus on the western coast of the Iberian peninsula, as described in the Massaliote Periplus, although this trade...

Higher-value coinages, suitable for use in trade, were minted in gold, silver, and high-quality bronze. Gold coinage was much more common than silver coinage, despite...

Syracuse in 878, Constantinople became the sole mint for gold and silver coinage until the late 11th century, when major provincial mints began to re-appear...

rulers of most of the Iberian peninsula. The resulting state survived until the Islamic invasion of 711. In the study of the coinage of the Visigoths a different...

form of coinage. Silver has been used as a coinage metal since the times of the Greeks; their silver drachmas were popular trade coins. The ancient Persians...

Near East, inspired developments in art and architecture, the adoption of coinage, and the development of the Greek alphabet. Athens developed its democratic...

ownership. Although barter was used in ancient Rome, and often used in tax collection, Rome had a very developed coinage system, with brass, bronze, and precious...

Tarraco is the ancient name of the current city of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). It was the oldest Roman settlement on the Iberian Peninsula. It became...

powerful navies in the ancient Mediterranean, and an army composed heavily of foreign mercenaries and auxiliaries, particularly Iberians, Balearics, Gauls...

Gargoris and Habis, Arganthonios is the earliest documented monarch of the Iberian Peninsula. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, King Arganthonios...

Tigranes I (Ancient Greek: Τιγράνης) was an Artaxiad king of Armenia at the end of the 2nd and the beginning of the 1st century BC. Few records have survived...

(ed.). The Oxford handbook of Greek and Roman coinage. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 507. "Ancient Coins – Roman Silver Antoninianus". www.24carat...

"Trade," in CAH 11, pp. 717–729. Mireille Corbier, "Coinage, Society, and Economy," in Cambridge Ancient History: The Crisis of Empire, A.D. 193–337 (Cambridge...

The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (Arabic: فَتْحُ الأَنْدَلُس), also known as the Arab conquest of Spain, by the Umayyad Caliphate occurred...

Modern influence of ancient Greece refers to the influence of Ancient Greece on later periods of history, from Medieval times up to the current modern...

colonists from Issa. The artifact is known as Lumbarda Psephisma. Evidence of coinage on the Illyrian coast used for trade between the Illyrians and the Greeks...

speculation that the term Dianio stemmed from an Iberian settlement named Diniu, which was supported by certain coinage discoveries. However, this has been identified...

(Greeks) predominated while a third of burials were cremations (Iberians). The ancient necropolis remained in use with inhumations and cremations, possibly...

silver that were used as bullion and commonly found in Iberian hoards from this period. Unlike coinage, hacksilber was not controlled by the state, and could...

Duchess of Medina Sidonia (born 1936). This city was most likely ancient Asido, an Iberian settlement which may have been founded by the Phoenicians, hence...

base. The city minted its own coinage and was the site of a prestigious school founded by Sertorius to educate young Iberians in Latin and Roman customs...

The Roman Empire was the post-Republican state of ancient Rome. It is generally understood to mean the period and territory ruled by the Romans following...

A client kingdom or people in ancient Rome meant a kingdom or ancient people that was in the condition of "appearing" still independent, but in the "sphere...