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List of most expensive coins Price Year Type Grade Issuing country Provenance Firm Date of sale $18,900,000 1933 1933 double eagle: MS-65 CAC United States: King Farouk of Egypt: Sotheby's [1] June 8, 2021 $12,000,000 1794 Flowing Hair dollar: SP-66 CAC United States Neil, Carter Private sale [2] January 24, 2013 $9,360,000 1787 Brasher ...
Teos' successor Nectanebo II kept this practice, though coining his personal gold staters. Gold stater as a daric (about 8.42 grams), obverse with a prancing horse on the right, [1] reverse with the hieroglyphs nfr-nb. Small gold stater (about 2.56 grams, diameter 14-15 mm), with a probable picture of a leaping gazelle.
Darius I (521–486 BC) introduced a new thick gold coin which had a standard weight of 8.4 grams, [3] [4] equaling in value 20 silver coins. The gold used in the coins was of very high quality with a purity of 95.83% [ 5 ] and it bore the image of the Persian king or a great warrior armed with a bow and arrow .
Achaemenid bimetallic equivalence: 1 gold Daric was equivalent in value to 20 silver Sigloi. Under the Achaemenids the exchange rate in weight between gold and silver was 1 to 13. [26] Darius introduced the reformed currency system from about 510-500 BC, [12] consisting of gold Darics and silver Sigloi. The rate of exchange was 1 Daric = 20 Siglos.
The Ptolemaic dynasty introduced standard coinage to Egypt, where pre-existing native dynasties made only very limited use of coins. Egyptian gold stater was the first coin ever minted in ancient Egypt around 360 BC during the reign of pharaoh Teos of the 30th Dynasty. These coins were used to pay salaries of Greek mercenaries in his service.
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The solidus was initially introduced by Diocletian in small issues and later reintroduced for mass circulation by Constantine the Great in c. AD 312 and was composed of relatively solid gold. [1] [2] [3] Constantine's solidus was struck at a rate of 72 to a Roman pound (of about 326.6 g) of gold; each coin weighed 24 Greco-Roman carats (189 mg ...
Reverse of a Yehud coin from the Persian era, with lily (symbol of Jerusalem) [1] Obverse of a Judean silver Yehud coin from the Persian era (0.58 gram), with falcon or eagle and Aramaic inscription YHD . Denomination is a Ma'ah. The Yehud coinage is a series of small silver coins bearing the Aramaic inscription Yehud. [2]