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  2. Judaea Capta coinage - Wikipedia

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    The Judaea Capta coins were struck for 25 years under Vespasian and his two sons who succeeded him as Emperor - Titus and Domitian. These commemorative coins were issued in bronze, silver and gold by mints in Rome, throughout the Roman Empire, and in Judaea itself. [6] They were issued in every denomination, and at least 48 different types are ...

  3. Sestertius - Wikipedia

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    During the Roman Republic it was a small, silver coin issued only on rare occasions. During the Roman Empire it was a large brass coin. The name sestertius means "two and one half", referring to its nominal value of two and a half asses (a bronze Roman coin, singular as), a value that was useful for commerce because it was one quarter of a ...

  4. Roman currency - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Dupondius - Wikipedia

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    The dupondius was introduced during the Roman Republic as a large bronze cast coin, although even at introduction it weighed less than 2 Roman pounds . The initial coins featured the bust of Roma on the obverse and a six-spoked wheel on the reverse. A loaf of bread or a sextarius (c. 0.5 L) of wine cost roughly one dupondius at the height of ...

  6. Hoard of ancient Roman coins perplexes archaeologists ...

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    The recovered coins were "solidi," meaning that they were made of pure gold, and INRA noted that the government of Luxembourg had given 308,600 euros to the "beneficiaries" of the coin hoard ...

  7. As (Roman coin) - Wikipedia

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    The system thus named as was introduced in ca. 280 BC as a large cast bronze coin during the Roman Republic. The following fractions of the as were also produced: the bes ( 2 ⁄ 3 ), semis ( 1 ⁄ 2 ), quincunx ( 5 ⁄ 12 ), triens ( 1 ⁄ 3 ), quadrans ( 1 ⁄ 4 ), sextans ( 1 ⁄ 6 ), uncia ( 1 ⁄ 12 , also a common weight unit), and ...

  8. Why Costco is selling gold bars and silver coins

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    It began selling $2,000 gold bars online in September and sold more than $100 million worth of the bars last quarter. But Costco’s move is more about marketing than just about increasing sales.

  9. Constantinian bronzes - Wikipedia

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    An AE3 coin of Valerius Valens. In numismatics, the term Constantinian bronzes denotes the series of bronze coins issued in the Roman Empire in the middle of the 4th century. The specific denominations are unclear and debated by historians and numismatists. They are referred to as AE1, AE2, AE3, and AE4, with the former being the largest (near ...

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