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Toggle Ancient Mediterranean subsection. 1.1 Greece. 1.2 Phoenicia. 1.3 Lydia. ... This is a list of historical currencies. Ancient Mediterranean. Greece ...
Currencies of ancient Americas (4 P) B. Coins of the Byzantine Empire (22 P) C. Coins of ancient China (19 P) E. Currencies of ancient Europe (3 P) G. Coins of ...
Roman currency for most of Roman history consisted of gold, silver, bronze, orichalcum and copper coinage. [1] From its introduction during the Republic, in the third century BC, through Imperial times, Roman currency saw many changes in form, denomination, and composition. A feature was the inflationary debasement and replacement of coins over ...
Ancient China, Africa, and India used cowry shells. [3] The Mesopotamian civilization developed a large-scale economy based on commodity money. The shekel was the unit of weight and currency, first recorded c. 2150 BC, which was nominally equivalent to a specific weight of barley that was the preexisting and parallel form of currency.
A list of all currencies, current and historic. The local name of the currency is used in this list, with the adjectival form of the country or region. The local name of the currency is used in this list, with the adjectival form of the country or region.
Originally, currency was a form of receipt, representing grain stored in temple granaries in Sumer in ancient Mesopotamia and in Ancient Egypt. In this first stage of currency, metals were used as symbols to represent value stored in the form of commodities. This formed the basis of trade in the Fertile Crescent for over 1500 years.
The trend of exclusively using the era names on currencies continued during the Qing dynasty, and all cash coins issued during this period were written in regular script. Below is a list of obverse inscriptions that were used on Chinese cash coins organized by period and/or dynasty. [1] [2] [3]
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