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Roman Republican currency - Wikipedia

Roman Republican currency ... Roman Republican currency is the coinage struck by the various magistrates of the Roman Republic, to be used as legal tender. In ...

Roman currency - Wikipedia

Roman currency for most of Roman history consisted of gold, silver, bronze, orichalcum and copper coinage. From its introduction during the Republic, ...

Roman Republican Coins - VCoins

During the late Republic, around 211 BC, the silver denarius was introduced, which became the standard silver currency unit. However, gold coins were minted on ...

Roman coins - Coin | History, Value, & Types | Britannica Money

The denarius, however, quickly established itself as the major currency in the central and western Mediterranean. In its eastward expansion, Rome learned to ...

Rome: A Thousand Years of Monetary History

Starting in the late 4th century B.C., the Roman Republic based a bronze (aesin Latin) coinage upon the weight standard of the Roman pound, which was about ...

Money in the Roman Republic - an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

At the Tiber River, people used Aes Rude as currency, unworked lumps of metal that every farmer could use as raw material for producing simple equipment for ...

Money Talks: A Very Short History of Roman Currency - Antigone

Gradually, what we call Aes Rude (chunks of cast bronze) began to be used to facilitate exchange of goods. Aes Rude can be seen as the prototype ...

The Study of Roman Coins | Rhodes Sites

For the Republic and Empire, the standard coin was a denarius. Eventually, gold coins became less rare while bronze coins became more rare. There were such a ...

A Comprehensive Guide to Ancient Coins | The Roman Empire

Roman currency was called denarius and aureus, with the latter being the gold monetary unit equal to 25 silver denarii.

The Badian Collection: Coins of the Roman Republic

The collection begins with examples of cast bronze coinage, used in the earliest stages of monetization. The Republic moved to struck coins, some made of silver ...

Ancient Rome - American Numismatic Society

The first Roman currency consisted of heavy bronze bars, which were used to pay taxes or fines until as late as the 4th century BC.

Roman Currency - Premium Ancient Coins

The history of Roman currency spans several centuries and reflects the economic and political transformations of the Roman Republic ...

Ancient Roman Currency - Crystalinks

The Roman currency during most of the Roman Republic and the western half of the Roman Empire consisted of coins including the aureus (gold), the denarius ( ...

The Denarius Coinage of the Roman Republic - Oxford Academic

The creation of the denarius coinage was one of the most influential monetary reforms ever carried out by the Romans: the denarius remained the standard silver ...

Roman Currency - English History

When Constantine came to power in AD 306, he introduced the solidus, which replaced the aureus as the standard gold coin of the Roman Empire.

About: Roman Republican currency - DBpedia

Roman Republican currency refers to the coinage struck by the various magistrates of the Roman Republic, to be used as legal tender. In modern times, the ...

Roman Coins | Currency and Coinage in the Roman Empire

Information about Roman coins, and how coins such as the silver denarius were essential to progress the Roman economy from the previous system of bartering ...

Roman Currency - The Romans in Britain

(See: Roman metallurgy) From its introduction to the Republic, during the third century BC, well into Imperial times, Roman currency saw many changes in form, ...

History of Hard Money: The Denarius and the Fall of Rome - Vaulted

The Roman Currency System ... The Romans built their monetary system on precious metals. The government minted and circulated the gold Aureus and silver Denarius ...

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The denarius was a silver coin that was minted from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD and became the standard currency in silver of the Roman Empire.