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  2. Ancient Greek coinage - Wikipedia

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    The three most important standards of the ancient Greek monetary system were the Attic standard, based on the Athenian drachma of 4.3 grams (2.8 pennyweights) of silver, the Corinthian standard based on the stater of 8.6 g (5.5 dwt) of silver, that was subdivided into three silver drachmas of 2.9 g (1.9 dwt), and the Aeginetan stater or didrachm of 12.2 g (7.8 dwt), based on a drachma of 6.1 g ...

  3. Ancient drachma - Wikipedia

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    In ancient Greece, the drachma (Greek: δραχμή, romanized:drachmḗ, [drakʰmέː]; pl. drachmae or drachmas) was an ancient currency unit issued by many city-states during a period of ten centuries, from the Archaic period throughout the Classical period, the Hellenistic period up to the Roman period. The ancient drachma originated in the ...

  4. Tetradrachm - Wikipedia

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    The tetradrachm (Greek: τετράδραχμον, translit. tetrádrachmon) was a large silver coin that originated in Ancient Greece. It was nominally equivalent to four drachmae. [1] Over time the tetradrachm effectively became the standard coin of the Antiquity, spreading well beyond the borders of the Greek World. As a result, tetradrachms ...

  5. History of coins - Wikipedia

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    Coins are a major archaeological source of history. Coins convey information about language, administration, religion, economic conditions, and the ruler who minted those coins. [1] Coins were first made of scraps of metal by hitting a hammer positioned over an anvil. The Chinese produced primarily cast coinage, and this spread to South-East ...

  6. Obol (coin) - Wikipedia

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    An obol of the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius, 12 mm in diameter. A 19th-century obol from the British-occupied Ionian Islands. The obol (Greek: ὀβολός, obolos, also ὀβελός (obelós), ὀβελλός (obellós), ὀδελός (odelós). lit. "nail, metal spit"; [1] Latin: obolus) was a form of ancient Greek currency and weight.

  7. Economy of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Laurium's silver mines provided the raw materials for the "Athenian owls", [8] [9] the most famous coins of the ancient Greek world. Less-valuable bronze coins appeared at the end of the 5th century. Coins played several roles in the Greek world. They provided a medium of exchange, mostly used by city-states to hire mercenaries and compensate ...

  8. Ptolemaic coinage - Wikipedia

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    Ptolemaic coinage. A silver tetradrachm of Ptolemy IV Philopator (r. 221 – 205 BC); an undated issue from the Arados royal mint, struck c. 214–212 BC, 26 mm in width, 14.10 gm in weight; the obverse shows a diademed head of Ptolemy I Soter wearing the aegis, while the reverse shows an eagle standing on a thunderbolt with a Greek inscription ...

  9. List of ancient Greek monetary standards - Wikipedia

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    List of ancient Greek monetary standards. Tetradrachm of Alexander the Great on the Attic weight, 17.15 g. Cistophorus of Pergamum, ca. 123-100 BC, 12 g. Rhodian tetradrachm from ca. 316-305 BC, 15.13 g (Chian standard). Rhodian tetradrachm from 230-205 BC, 12.35 g (Rhodian standard). A wide variety of different monetary standards were used by ...

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