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  2. Ancient Greek coinage - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Economy of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    The economy of ancient Greece was defined largely by the region's dependence on imported goods. As a result of the poor quality of Greece 's soil , agricultural trade was of particular importance. The impact of limited crop production was somewhat offset by Greece's paramount location, as its position in the Mediterranean gave its provinces ...

  4. Nomisma - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek-NOMISMA: "money", The King James Version (KJV) New Testament Greek Lexicon; Strong's Number:3546 Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine Aristotle, NICOMACHEAN ETHICS [1133b 1], translations: a) Thomas Taylor ; b) Sir (William) David Ross KBE ; c) Harris Rackham

  5. Iron currency - Wikipedia

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    Sparta deliberately used iron currency to make amassing wealth unwieldy, and remained on an iron currency standard all through Greece's golden age. [2] Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, mentions iron currency in Britain. [3] "For money they use bronze or gold coins, or iron bars of fixed weights." — Julius Caesar, 54 BC [1]

  6. Ancient Greek crafts - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek crafts (or the craftsmanship in Ancient Greece) was an important but largely undervalued, economic activity. It involved all activities of manufacturing transformation of raw materials, agricultural or not, both in the framework of the oikos and in workshops of size that gathered several tens of workers.

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  8. Magnificence (history of ideas) - Wikipedia

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    The grand style of magnificence also entered terminological discourse [vague] of ancient Greek art criticism. The Greeks drew on rhetorical terminology to describe and evaluate sculpture, painting, and architecture. [16] They applied the term magnificence to works of art that express grandeur and other lofty features.

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