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The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
The 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series to be played in Major League Baseball.It matched the American League (AL) champion Boston Americans against the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates [note 1] in a best-of-nine series, with Boston prevailing five games to three, winning the last four.
Coins were an important means of disseminating this image throughout the Empire. [12] Coins often attempted to make the emperor appear god-like through associating the emperor with attributes normally seen in divinities, or emphasizing the special relationship between the emperor and a particular deity by producing a preponderance of coins ...
Ephesus' great temple of Artemis has provided evidence for the earliest coins yet known from the ancient world. [nb 1] The first structures in the sanctuary, buried deep under the later temples, date back to the eighth century BCE, and from that time on precious objects were used in the cult or dedicated to the goddess by her worshippers.
The use and export of silver coinage, along with soldiers paid in coins, contributed to the Athenian Empire's dominance of the region in the 5th century BC. The silver used was mined in southern Attica at Laurium and Thorikos by a huge workforce of slave labour. A major silver vein discovery at Laurium in 483 BC led to the huge expansion of the ...
The gold coins had an initial weight of 10.7 grams. [1] The silver coins also were issued in 10.7 grams, together with many smaller denominations, from 1/3 to 1/48. [1] This makes it the world's first bimetallic monetary system [1] though the idea of smaller silver denominations had originated in Cyme (Aeolis) under Hermodike II.
The most familiar coin of this series is the peça or 1 ⁄ 2 onça worth 6$400. Other denominations include the half- peça of 3$200, the escudo of 1$600, and the half- escudo of 0$800. As the United Kingdom was on the gold standard starting 1717, Portuguese gold coins widely circulated there at the rate of 27 shillings (£1.35) for the ...
Coins of the Yuan dynasty. The Yuan dynasty was a Mongol-ruled Chinese dynasty which existed from 1271 to 1368. After the conquest of the Western Xia, Western Liao, and Jin dynasties they allowed for the continuation of locally minted copper currency, as well as allowing for the continued use of previously created and older forms of currency (from previous Chinese dynasties), while they ...