The Coin Collector's Manual: Comprising an Historical and Critical Account of the Origin and Progress of Coinage, from the Earliest Period to the Fall of the Roman Empire; with Some Account of the Coinages of Modern Europe, More Especially of Great Britain, Volume 1Bell, 1897 |
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... received the name of Phocea , from wyn , the Greek name of a seal , and that they also adopted the seal as the type or badge of their coinage . These gold pieces of the Phoceans were well known among the Greek states and other ...
... received the name of Phocea , from wyn , the Greek name of a seal , and that they also adopted the seal as the type or badge of their coinage . These gold pieces of the Phoceans were well known among the Greek states and other ...
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... received the credit of this important invention . Like many other of the most useful inventions of man , the precise date of the origin of coined money is lost in obscurity ; nevertheless an approximation to it may be made with some ...
... received the credit of this important invention . Like many other of the most useful inventions of man , the precise date of the origin of coined money is lost in obscurity ; nevertheless an approximation to it may be made with some ...
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... received at once as of a certain value , guaranteed , not by an individual , but by a state , with the national signet stamped upon it to establish and denote that value , was a yet greater step , and formed the basis of the entire ...
... received at once as of a certain value , guaranteed , not by an individual , but by a state , with the national signet stamped upon it to establish and denote that value , was a yet greater step , and formed the basis of the entire ...
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... received the name of stater , a Greek word signifying standard . This standard appears to have been a weight corresponding to two drachmæ of silver , and of the value of twenty . Thus , the Greeks when they first established coins as a ...
... received the name of stater , a Greek word signifying standard . This standard appears to have been a weight corresponding to two drachmæ of silver , and of the value of twenty . Thus , the Greeks when they first established coins as a ...
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... received is that they were struck by the Persians for the use of the Grecian provinces of Asia , when they fell under Persian dominion , and that the Persians were not the inventors of a coinage , nor did they even then adopt that kind ...
... received is that they were struck by the Persians for the use of the Grecian provinces of Asia , when they fell under Persian dominion , and that the Persians were not the inventors of a coinage , nor did they even then adopt that kind ...
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