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    Roman currency for most of Roman history consisted of gold, silver, bronze, orichalcum and copper coinage. From its introduction during the Republic, in...
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  • Roman Republican currency is the coinage struck by the various magistrates of the Roman Republic, to be used as legal tender. In modern times, the abbreviation...
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  • Roman provincial currency was coinage minted within the Roman Empire by local civic rather than imperial authorities. These coins were often continuations...
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    Lira (redirect from Lira (currency))
    name of several former currencies, including those of Italy, Malta and Israel. The term originates from the value of a Roman pound (Latin: libra, about...
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    Euro (redirect from Euro currency)
    The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the 27 member states of the European Union. This group of states is officially...
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    Denarius (redirect from Roman denar)
    or 1⁄48 of a Roman pound. Contact with the Greeks had prompted a need for silver coinage in addition to the bronze currency that the Romans were using at...
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    States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar...
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    abacus. The abacus, which used Roman numerals, was ideally suited to the counting of Roman currency and tallying of Roman measures.[citation needed] The...
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    Unicode currency symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of currency symbols. A currency symbol...
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    SPQR (redirect from Roman Senate and People)
    dedications of monuments and public works, and on some Roman currency. The full phrase appears in Roman political, legal, and historical literature, such as...
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  • A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. A more general definition...
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  • (gold) Talent (silver, gold) Tremissis (gold) Roman currency Roman Imperial currency Roman Republican currency Potin Stater Gold coin Silver coin Écu Florin...
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    'imperial minting ordinances' defining a uniform currency standard for the states of the Holy Roman Empire. Below is a history (in terms of grams of silver)...
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    British pre-decimal (duodecimal) currency system, the term £sd (or Lsd) for pounds, shillings and pence referred to the Roman libra, solidus, and denarius...
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    and the follaro. Wikimedia Commons has media related to As (coin). Roman currency Roman finance Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium...
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    name dinar derives from the Roman denarius. As of December 2021, the Bahraini dinar is the second highest-valued currency unit, at 2.65 United States...
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    [citation needed] Upon his accession, Julianus immediately devalued the Roman currency by decreasing the silver purity of the denarius from 87% to 81.5%. After...
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  • the pegged (fixed exchange rate) currencies, there are only 130 currencies that are independent or pegged to a currency basket. Dependencies and unrecognized...
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    coins.[self-published source] In Roman currency, the value of the denarius was gradually decreased over time as the Roman government altered both the size...
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    Marcus Aurelius (category 2nd-century Roman emperors)
    Empire. He reduced the silver purity of the Roman currency, the denarius. The persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire appears to have increased during...
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    The coinage reform of Augustus refers to the reform of Roman currency undertaken by Augustus in 23 BC. Augustus brought the minting of gold and silver...
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    Penny (redirect from Penny (currency))
    shekel, and the Roman denarius. Forms of these seem to have reached as far as Norway and Sweden.[citation needed] The use of Roman currency in Britain, seems...
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  • extrapolate conversion rate with other currencies which came before or existing concurently the baht such as: Roman Denarius, Old Greek Drachma, Ducat, and...
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    A reserve currency is a foreign currency that is held in significant quantities by central banks or other monetary authorities as part of their foreign...
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    ISO 4217 (redirect from Currency code)
    codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual currencies and their minor units. This data...
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    principal copper coin in Roman currency, was also divided into 12 unciae. Again, the abacus was ideally suited for counting currency. The first column was...
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    the historiographical name for the ethnically Roman, de facto independent remnant of the Western Roman Empire's Diocese of Gaul, which existed during...
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    the libra which referred to the Troy pound of silver. The Roman libra adoption of the currency spread it throughout Europe and the Near East, where it continued...
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    and Etruscan civilization, the Romans introduced a widespread currency throughout Italy. Unlike most modern coins, Roman coins had intrinsic value. The...
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  • a local currency is a currency that can be spent in a particular geographical locality at participating organisations. A regional currency is a form...
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