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Continental Silver N-3D Prefed United States Boyd, Ford, Partrick Heritage Auctions: January 2015 $1,527,500 1797 O-101a 50C United States Brand, Curtis, Hepner, Rogers Sotheby's/Stack's Bowers: May 2015 $1,527,500 1796 B-2 25C United States Green, Newman Heritage Auctions: November 2013 $1,527,500 1776 Continental Silver N-1C Prefed United States
Antoninianus. The antoninianus, introduced in 215 AD, continued the denarius 's slow decline in silver purity. The antoninianus or pre-reform radiate [1] was a coin used during the Roman Empire thought to have been valued at 2 denarii. It was initially silver, but was slowly debased to bronze with a minimal silver content.
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 ...
The silver standard [a] is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of silver. Silver was far more widespread than gold as the monetary standard worldwide, from the Sumerians c. 3000 BC until 1873. Following the discovery in the 16th century of large deposits of silver at the Cerro Rico in Potosí ...
Nabataean coinage. Aretas III 85 BC. The coinage of Nabataea began under the reign of Aretas II, c. 110 – 96 BC but it was his heir Aretas III, who at the time was in control of land extending to Damascus. The silver coinage is based on the weight of the Roman Denarius or Greek Drachma, [1] as the adjacent areas around Nabataea used the Greek ...
scudo, both in silver and gold. It showed the city's symbol. The golden scudo was minted for the first time in the 16th century and weighed some 3.40 g; gazzetta, of the value of 2 soldi. quartarolo, a small coin with the value of one quarter denaro, minted for the first time under Enrico Dandolo (1192), and discontinued in 1328.
Un chau – China. Knife money – Zhou dynasty. Ant nose coin – Chu (state) Ying Yuan – Chu (state) Sycee – Qin dynasty. Ban Liang – Qin dynasty. Spade money – Zhou dynasty, Xin dynasty. Jiaozi (currency) – Song dynasty. Guanzi (currency) – Song dynasty.
The 2 Mark coins are 11.111 grams in weight and have a diameter of 28 mm. The 3 Mark coins are 16.667 grams in weight and have a diameter of 33 mm. The 5 Mark coins are 27.778 grams in weight and have a diameter of 38 mm. In general a Mark represented 5 grams of silver. A 5 Mark silver coin thus contained 25 g silver; by contrast there were ...