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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History of money (redirect from History of currency)
Romance languages, including the words "money" and "mint" 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. A more general definition...
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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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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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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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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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[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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Marcus Aurelius (category 2nd-century Roman consuls)
Empire. He reduced the silver purity of the Roman currency, the denarius. The persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire appears to have increased during...
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Bahraini dinar (redirect from Bahrain currency)
name dinar derives from the Roman denarius. As of December 2021, the Bahraini dinar is the second highest-valued currency unit, at 2.65 United States...
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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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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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a local currency is a currency that can be spent in a particular geographical locality at participating organisations. A regional currency is a form...
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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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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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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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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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Coinage reform of Augustus (category 20s BC in the Roman Empire)
The coinage reform of Augustus refers to the reform of Roman currency undertaken by Augustus in 23 BC. Augustus brought the minting of gold and silver...
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The currency sign ¤ is a character used to denote an unspecified currency. It can be described as a circle the size of a lowercase character with four...
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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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