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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. Coinage of Aegina - Wikipedia

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   The coins were first made in the island of Aegina, off the southeast side of Greece. Yale Professor and Historian Donald Kagan sustains that the king of Argos Pheidon was "the first man to strike silver coins on the island of Aegina" in the 7th century, however this has been contested by most experts in the field and so far unconfirmed by ...

4. Category:Coins of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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5. List of ancient Greek monetary standards - Wikipedia

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   The Achaean standard consisted of a stater of around 8 g, divided into three drachms of 2.6 g and obols of 0.4 g; these weights declined over time. It was first used in the mid-sixth century by the Greek city-states of Sybaris, Metapontum, and Croton, which had been founded in Magna Graecia by Achaeans from the Peloponnese, and it remained one of the main standards in Magna Graecia until the ...

6. List of historical currencies - Wikipedia

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   5-sol French coin and silver coins – New France; Spanish-American coins- unofficial; Playing cards – 1685-1760s, sometimes officially New France; 15 and a 30-deniers coin known as the mousquetaire – early 17th century New France; Gold Louis – 1720 New France; Sol and Double Sol 1738–1764; English coins early 19th century

7. Category:Ancient currencies - Wikipedia

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   Coins of ancient Rome (2 C, 60 P) S. Shekel (1 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Ancient currencies" ... Greek coinage of Italy and Sicily; H. Hasmonean coinage; Herodian ...