Ancient Macedonian Coins

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Ancient European silver coins are among the most widely circulated among coin traders and collectors of the world. If you do a search on Google alone, it will yield you 1000s of sites that sell and appraise these invaluable pieces of history. Ancient Greece: drachma, which was the ancient currency that

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Do You happen to know how much in American dollars was paid for a small silver coin collection of the Roman Empire at Sotheby's? More than four thousand years ago people did not have the slightest idea about money. Their exchange of handicraft things for cattle, grain, fells was known as

Money in Ancient Greece: Drachma

What is the name for the money they used in Ancient Greece? Before 600 B.C. there was no monetary system in Greece, so they utilized the barter system. This was a system of trading goods and services for other goods or services. By 500 B.C., each city-state began minting their own

Billon coins

The word originates from the middle Latin billo, meaning "a coin containing mostly copper", or just "unit of payment". Billon is an alloy of a precious metal (most commonly silver) with a majority base metal content (copper). It is used for making coins, medals, and token coins. Use of billon coins date

The history of silver coins during the Byzantine Time and in The Biblical World

The history of coinage is really ancient. The coin-collectors say that this very history of silver coins is close to the history of different ancient civilizations. Among these civilizations are The Roman Empire, The Egypt, the Byzantine Empire, the Persian period etc. The rise of the Byzantine Empire was located