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The Phanes coins are a series of coins issued in seven denominations: stater, 1/3, 1/6, 1/12, 1/24, 1/48, and 1/96 stater. The staters weigh 14.1 grams. All of the coins have the image of a stag or part of a stag on them. [1] The coins were likely struck at Ephesus. [2] The stater and 1/3 stater coins from this series both bear Greek ...
Coins were first made of scraps of metal by hitting a hammer positioned over an anvil. The Chinese produced primarily cast coinage, and this spread to South-East Asia and Japan. Although few non-Chinese cast coins were produced by governments, it was a common practice amongst counterfeiters. Electrum coin from Ephesus, 650-625 BC.
The sales data for coins or coin collections on eBay has a sell-through rate of approximately 1,525%. Monthly sale earnings for coins can reach upwards of $290,000. For many high-value coins, the ...
The coin has seen several reverse, or tails, designs and now bears one by Lyndall Bass depicting a Union shield. All coins struck by the United States government with a value of 1 ⁄ 100 of a dollar are called cents because the United States has always minted coins using decimals. The penny nickname is a carryover from the coins struck in ...
Lydia and Ephesus also shared important economic interests which allowed Ephesus to hold an advantageous position between the maritime trade routes of the Aegean Sea and the continental trade routes going through inner Anatolia and reaching Assyria, thus acting as an intermediary between the Lydian kingdom which controlled access to the trade ...
If a tragedy befell the owner of the hoard, the coins would have simply remained secretly buried. The history of the daric started in the sixth century and lasted until Alexander the Great’s ...
Roman-era civic coin of Ephesus, showing a bust of Emperor Elagabalus and priding itself of being "alone of all, four times neokoros" (MONΩN AΠΑCΩN TETΡAKI NEΩKOΡΩN) Neokoros ( Ancient Greek : νεωκόρος ), plural neokoroi ( νεωκόροι ), was a sacral office in Ancient Greece associated with the custody of a temple.
A woman who claimed mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor “brutally raped and battered” her in a Dublin hotel penthouse was awarded nearly 250,000 Euros ($257,000) on Friday by a civil ...