hoards, coin Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
CN Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Value mark on 6th-century silver coins from *Italy, sometimes termed *siliqua but of unknown name. CN, representing 250, gives the value of the coin in ...
coinage, Roman and post-Roman Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Comitatensian Mint Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
congiaria Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Imperial monetary *donative, recorded up to 354. Roman *coinage commemorated congiaria up to the 2nd century and thereafter bore the more general term ...
decargyrum Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Late Roman *bronze coin denomination. The denomination system of the Later Roman Empire became quite confused. The decargyrum is mentioned in a law of 395 (...
denarius Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Roman *silver coin denomination, theoretically weighing 1/72 of a Roman pound or c.4.5 grams (0.15 ounces). The denarius...
denier Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Late medieval *silver coin denomination, usually weighing 1.1 or 1.3 grams (c.0.04 ounces). The denier, derived from Latin ...
dinar Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Early *Islamic *gold coin denomination. The first *Arab dinars were struck to the same weight standard as the Byzantine gold ...
dirham Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
*Islamic *silver coin denomination, weighing c.3 grams (0.1 ounces). It can also refer to silver coins from the ...
falus Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
*Bronze coin used in the *‘Umayyad and *Abbasid *caliphates, also spelt fals (plur. fulus). Derived from the Roman term ...
decanummium Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Late Roman *bronze denomination worth ten *nummi. The coin was introduced by the *coinage reform of *...
exagion Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Unit of weight equal to 1/72 of the Roman pound, or c.4.5 grams (0.15 ounces). Alternative terms included stagion...
follis Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Late Roman *bronze coin denomination worth 40 *nummi. The follis was introduced in 498 under *Anastasius I...
globe cruciger Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Globe surmounted by a *cross (cruciger) or image of *Victory (nicephorus), often held by imperial figures on ...
hexagram Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
*Silver denomination coin introduced by the *Emperor *Heraclius in 615, weighing c.6.84 g (0.2 ounces). The ...
maiorina Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Large billon coin introduced in the coinage reform of
mint marks Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Christian symbols on coins Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
These began to appear on Roman (and, later, derivative western) *coinage from the 4th century onwards. *Constantine I...
Constantinople, mint of Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
By 330 the new mint of *Constantinople was the largest in the Empire. From the 7th century it operated a virtual monopoly on ...
