China was one of the first countries to use money. In the late Neolithic Period, livestock and natural cowries were used as a form of currency. In the Shang and Zhou Dynasties (ca. 16th century-221 BC), unwrought weight metals and cast coins appeared with the rise of commodity exchanges....
Coins in this size range seem to average slightly lower than expected at 6.38 grams but very considerably from 4 to 12 grams. It is likely lighter examples are illicit castings and should not be included in the averages, while many of the heaviest ones would have been melted in ancient tim...
Also, a discussion of the output of the mint located at Launceston between the 10th and 12th centuries describes one of the few occasions when an official mint was in operation in Cornwall. Ancient and Early Medieval Coins from Cornwall & Scilly is one of only 3 regional numismatic corpora ...
HARBIN, July 2 (Xinhua) -- At the Jin Shangjing History Museum in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, a gleaming thumb-sized silver coin attracts curious visitors. With unique curved edges unlike other Chinese and Western coins, the silver money in the shape of a doub...
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10748. LIVIA (Julia Augusta). Augusta, AD 14-29. AE Dupondius (30mm, 12.72 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Tiberius, AD 22-23. Bareheaded and draped bust of Julia Augusta as Salus right / Legend around large S C. RIC I 47 (Tiberius). VF, green patina, areas of encrustation,...
Click on the links or images below to see more coins from each time period. The one link toGreekcoins is at the end. Some counterfeits were made by casting and some ancient molds are still extant.See here for some molds("moulds" in Britain) and a description of one way it was done...
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In 1953 French Polynesia established two civil property companies to develop the atolls and granted them exclusive use for a period of ten years. Though little was done, the agreement and the atolls were permanently transferred to the companies. The companies were later dissolved, leaving ownership...
period, covering several centuries, from about 750 to 30 B.C. Within the complex, they found treasures, including 29 silver coins from ancient Greece, a clay altar, a miniature vase and a figurine of a horse with a rider. Some of the coins date as far back as the sixth century B.C...