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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.
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 ...
In ancient Greece, the drachma ( Greek: δραχμή, romanized : drachmḗ, [drakʰmέː]; pl. drachmae or drachmas) was an ancient currency unit issued by many city-states during a period of ten centuries, from the Archaic period throughout the Classical period, the Hellenistic period up to the Roman period. The ancient drachma originated in ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Ancient currencies" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Achaemenid coinage;
The dog days of summer, the period during which the star Sirius rises alongside the sun, run from July 3 to August 11. Ancient people believed that Sirius influenced the weather, among other ...
List of ancient Greek monetary standards. Tetradrachm of Alexander the Great on the Attic weight, 17.15 g. Cistophorus of Pergamum, ca. 123-100 BC, 12 g. Rhodian tetradrachm from ca. 316-305 BC, 15.13 g (Chian standard). Rhodian tetradrachm from 230-205 BC, 12.35 g (Rhodian standard). A wide variety of different monetary standards were used by ...
After the storm, they went out to check on the animals, and what they found will make you smile. Owner Tiffany Paltauf headed out to the barn and found two of their rescued pics, Missy and Matilda ...