SILVER COIN WIKIPEDIA OPEN SEARCH EDIT COIN ARTICLE MULTIPLE PLEASE HELP IMPROVE DISCUSS TALK PAGE REMOVE TEMPLATE PERSPECTIVE WORLDWIDE VIEW ISSUE CREATE NEEDS ADDING RELIABLE SOURCES MATERIAL SILVER COINS SILVER COINAGE METAL THE TIMES DRACHMAS POPULAR TRADE THE ANCIENT PERSIANS BRITISH PENNIES COLLECTIBLE FACTORS DETERMINE VALUE CONDITION NUMBER ANCIENT COLLECTORS DENARIUS MILIARENSE RECENT MORGAN DOLLAR SPANISH MILLED DOLLAR SILVER BULLION COINS PEOPLE DESIRE CURRENCY INFLATION STORE OF VALUE INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY SYMBOL ISO 4217 DEVELOPMENT OF DRACHMA THE ISLAND 404 BC THE WESTERN WORLD MINTED IN THE KINGDOM LYDIA ASIA MINOR ELECTRUM NATURALLY OCCURRING ALLOY GOLD AVAILABLE THE TERRITORY THE CONCEPT METAL QUICKLY SPREAD ADJACENT NEIGHBOURING GREEK MERCHANTS TRADED COMMUNITIES MEDITERRANEAN SEA THE GREEK COINAGE CONCEPT SOON ENTIRE MEDITERRANEAN REGION DENOMINATED FRACTIONS MORE OR LESS SIMULTANEOUSLY LYDIAN SYSTEM DEVELOPED THE CHINESE THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION PRECIOUS METAL LOCAL BRONZE USEFUL TRANSACTIONS SUMS INVOLVED THE GREEKS CITY STATES INDICATION PLACE OF ORIGIN SYSTEMS FROM ONE ATTIC CORINTHIAN STANDARD STANDARDS DEFINED PROPER 4TH CENTURY BC THE KINGDOM MACEDONIA DOMINATE POWERFUL ALEXANDER THE GREAT EVENTUALLY LAUNCHED ATTACK EMPIRE FELL APART DEATH IN 32 EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION WESTERN ASIA PERSIAN DIVIDED SMALL NUMBER CITY STATE PRINCIPAL UNIT GREEK GOVERNMENT GREEK COINS EXTENT RULERS MINTING COINS FAR AWAY EGYPT CENTRAL TETRADRACHM DRACHMS HELLENISTIC ERA WORLD THE ROMANS CONTROL THE ITALIAN THE EARLY 3RD CENTURY BC THE REGION SUPPLEMENTARY PRINCIPAL ROMAN COIN THE ROMAN ECONOMY 3RD CENTURY AD ANTONINIANUS THIS WAS STAGES DEBASEMENT PURE REGIONS RULED HELLENISTIC MONARCHS ROMAN IMMEDIATELY LEAD UNITARY MONETARY SYSTEM TRADITIONS EASTERN THE WESTERN THE LOCAL GREEK IMPERIAL PEOPLES THE CELTS IBERIAN PENINSULA THE ARAB THE EAST THE ROMAN EMPIRE PARTHIANS KINGDOM STABLE SASSANIANS NEW DYNASTY PERSIA MINTING DISTINCT FABRIC STAPLE RIGHT UP TO CONQUEST THE 7TH THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE THE ARABS MEDIEVAL BYZANTINE ECONOMY BYZANTINE COINAGE WHAT WAS LEFT EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE CURRENCY COPPER MILIARESION CROSS STEPS OBVERSE INSCRIPTION FORMING CONTENT DECLINED PER CENT FINALLY ENDING THE FOURTH CRUSADE REVOLUTION THE ARABIAN PENINSULA NEW STATE IN 62 MOHAMMED THE STATE GOVERNED THUS THE CALIPHATE BYZANTINE TERRITORIES THE NORTHWEST SASSANIAN THE NORTHEAST THE QUESTION DRACHM ARABIC INSCRIPTIONS TYPE ORNAMENTS HUMAN BEINGS SUNNI WIDE TRADING ROUTES RUSSIA NAME AGHLABID RULER IBRAHIM ABBASID CALIPH SIMILAR REGULAR ABBASID SHOWING SIGNS EMERGING INDEPENDENT THE POWER BALANCE CHANGED CENTRAL POWER THE NAMES FEUDAL LORDS INCREASINGLY DYNASTIES CENTURIES THE DEMISE THE CLASSICAL VARIETY MEDIEVAL EUROPE CERTAIN ACCEPTED TYPE IN SCEATTAS THE NETHERLANDS THE PENNY LANGUAGES SUFFERED GRADUAL GENERALLY FLOW EUROPE FROM THE NEW WORLD THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE THE BALKANS NEW POWER STRONG OTTOMAN STATE THE OTTOMANS CAPITAL OTTOMAN ACCESSION SAFAVID DYNASTY TERMS LANGUAGE SHIFT CURSIVE INTERLACED APPEARANCE REIGN MUGHAL EMPEROR ALAMGIR II COINS OF INDIA PIECES CARRYING POINT IN TIME INDIA SANSKRIT WORD MEANS TERM RELATED THE WORD RUPEE SHER SHAH SURI RENAGADE GOVERNOR BROKE THE MUGHAL EMPIRE SHORT RULE NORTHERN INDIA WEIGHING COPPER COINS DAM GOLD COINS MOHUR LATER ON MUGHAL EMPERORS STANDARDISED ORDER SPANISH PACIFIC ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MEXICO TRADE DOLLAR SPANISH COLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS FINDS NEW SPAIN IN THE ZONE OUTSIDE INDIGENOUS SETTLEMENT THE DISCOVERY OF SILVER MINE POTOSI MODERN SPANISH CROWN LICENSED MINING PROVISION FIFTH QUINTO GO TO THE CROWN MINTS IN MEXICO SUCH THAT THE WHOLE COLONIAL PERIOD HIGH QUALITY THE INTERNATIONAL SPAIN THE REST INDUSTRIES TRANSPORTED MANILA GALLEON CHINA PARTICULAR SILVER COINAGE THE HIGH QUALITY PAID CHINESE LUXURY GOODS MEXICAN SILVER EXPORTED MEXICAN REAL CHINESE CHOP MARKS EUROPEANS SILVER MINING DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAS ANSWER DEMAND INSPIRED FINE CRAFTSMANSHIP JOACHIMSTHAL GAVE RISE JOACHIMSTHALER PRODUCTION POLITICS EUROPEAN RELATIONS PARTICULARLY SOMETIMES MINTING OF COINS SIZE PURCHASE GOODS SUPPLY CAUSED RELATIVE VALUE UNITED HALF DOLLARS DOLLARS SAVE NICKEL THE WAR WAR NICKELS THE US SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE COINS FOR SALE COIN COLLECTORS BULLION COINS SOLD LEGAL TENDER CIRCULATE AMERICAN SILVER EAGLE BULLION GOVERNMENTS AUTHORIZE NOMINAL FACE VALUE THE NATIONAL THE FACE MUCH LESS THAN COMMON MINIMUM YEAR OF MEXICAN SILVER LIBERTAD CHINESE SILVER PANDA CANADIAN SILVER MAPLE LEAF AUSTRALIAN SILVER KOOKABURRA PERTH MINT AUSTRALIAN SILVER KANGAROO THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN MINT SILVER BRITANNIA PROOF VERSION PUBLIC AUSTRIAN SILVER VIENNA PHILHARMONIC RUSSIAN GEORGE THE VICTORIOUS GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT ISSUED OF 1 TROY OUNCE GRAMS THE DIMENSIONS CARRY ARMED FORCES ROUNDS NO FACE PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTORS EVOLVED ROUGH TIMELINE MONEY FAMOUS ARGUABLY THE MEXICAN SPANISH DOLLAR PARTS THE WORLD FACILITATE STANDARDIZED MINOR VARIATIONS DECLINING THE END 19TH CENTURY INTRODUCT