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centenionalis

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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2018
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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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Small *bronze coin introduced in the *coinage reform of ad 348. This reform failed to stabilize the Roman monetary system and the ...

charagma

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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In Greek, a stamp or brand. Its meaning in Byzantine legal contexts with reference to *money has been contested, especially with reference to ...

dinar

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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Early *Islamic *gold coin denomination. The first *Arab dinars were struck to the same weight standard as the Byzantine gold ...

dirham

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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*Islamic *silver coin denomination, weighing c.3 grams (0.1 ounces). It can also refer to silver coins from the ...

hexagram

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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*Silver denomination coin introduced by the *Emperor *Heraclius in 615, weighing c.6.84 g (0.2 ounces). The ...

hoards, coin

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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Two or more coins found in a context indicating intentional deposition together. Low- and high-value *coinage was hoarded throughout Late Antiquity for safekeeping. Deposition could be the ... More
India

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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Understanding references to ‘India’ in Late Roman texts is complicated by the flexible use of this term by contemporary authors. ‘India’ might denote any region south and/or east of the ... More
issue marks

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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In coin design, these are marks in addition to the *mint mark, possibly indicating the purpose of minting, the quality of the coinage, or the minting personnel. Privy and issue marks ... More
Christian symbols on coins

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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These began to appear on Roman (and, later, derivative western) *coinage from the 4th century onwards. *Constantine I...

CN

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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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

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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The coined metals which circulated legally within the Roman state, and the coinage issued by successor powers of Rome in parts of the West, based on Roman models, were a multi-metallic ... More
Comitatensian Mint

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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Late Roman mint attached to the imperial *court, producing precious metal *coinage. During the late 3rd and early 4th centuries minting personnel appear to have been part of the imperial ... More
congiaria

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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Imperial monetary *donative, recorded up to 354. Roman *coinage commemorated congiaria up to the 2nd century and thereafter bore the more general term ...

Constantinople, mint of

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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By 330 the new mint of *Constantinople was the largest in the Empire. From the 7th century it operated a virtual monopoly on ...

nummus

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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Late Roman *bronze coin and smallest monetary unit of account. By ad 498 the nummus had become physically tiny and fiscally almost worthless. Anastasius I’s coinage reform of 498 retained ... More
obryzum

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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Mark on *coinage indicating purified *gold. Following the coinage reform of 365–8 enacted by *Valentinian I, gold coins were marked OB (...

officina

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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Subdivision of a Roman or Byzantine mint, often translated as ‘workshop’. Officinae divided responsibility within mints, presumably to increase regulation, though whether the division was ... More
ounce

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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One-twelfth of a Roman pound, and the metrological basis for Late Roman *coinage. Fractions of an ounce were used as the basis for denominating both precious- and base-metal coinage in the ... More
paracharactae

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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Forgers of *coinage, legislated against in 389. A law of *Valentinian II, *Theodosius I, and *Arcadius...

miliarensis

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Rebecca Darley

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

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History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE), Classical studies
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Numismatic term for two Late Roman *silver denominations. Two coins, termed light (c.4.55 g/0.15 ounces) and heavy (...

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