So what I was wondering is since Alexander The Great’s silver coinage was known as the “ US dollar of the ancient world” and was accepted by every single Greek Kingdom after Alexander’s death . In Roman times, would these coins be accepted and circulate in the Eastern Provinces which were heavily influenced by Greek culture since the Seleucid Empire and other Hellenistic kingdoms ruled this area prior to the Roman conquest. Did this happen?
I don’t care who they bring , but I AM NOT PAYING MY TAXES
The Romans believed in the Greek underworld, where Charon was waiting for them.
It kind of depends. Most old HongKongers speak fluent English but have a Cantonese accent. However, some Hong Kong families that have been living here for a really long time speak English with the Queen's English pronunciation. My family has been living here since before the British colonization, and almost all of my family speaks Queen's English.
It really depends on historical social class, because only wealthy Chinese families could afford " English" education, whereas everyone else had a hard time to.
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What’s Britain like? I’m going to fly to London tmr for a road trip to Inverness for some reason. The only thing I know about Britain is Kay’s Cooking and Idris Elba
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Why was the prutah the only bronze coin minted in Roman Judaea ? It was already an extremely low value denomination?
Looking at Roman Judaean coins, the only coins minted during this period are bronze prutahs and other multiples such as the “4 prutah” coin. As the prutah was worth a Roman quadrans or 1/64 of a drachm or denarius, there wouldn’t really be any situation even in low value transactions where you would be using this coin. Imagine it as the current US dime. Why would the Romans in charge of Judaea mint these low value coins with virtually no purchasing power, instead of issuing more higher value silver coins?
Why did the Romans not standardize their currency?
So I was thinking, in Italia and the western portion of the Roman Empire, they used the Roman monetary standard of dupondii, sestertii and denarii, but the eastern provinces such as Roman Syria and Roman Egypt used the original Greek monetary standard of drachmae. Wouldn’t it be easier for Rome to establish their own monetary standard on these eastern provinces, both as a way to show dominance over the peoples living there as well as Romanizing them. Also, it would greatly benefit the convenience of trade between Rome and the Eastern Provinces as Roman traders didn’t have to convert their denarii into drachmae to be used in the eastern provinces.
Found traces of homeless people living inside one of those caves ( third picture)
I attach a rope to a tree in front of the cave entrance, so I can get back up and down easily.
What Ancient Greek silver coins do you recommend a beginner to collect?
So I know that on this subreddit, the main advice for begineers collecting ancient Roman coins is to first purchase a Gordian 3 antoninianus as it is the standard " starter" coin for every beginner trying to get into the realm of collecting ancient roman coins. Is there a similar equivalent for Ancient Greek silver coins for beginners?
How do you guys deal with fake ancient coins?
So a year ago, I was looking for a Euboea tetrobol. I brought it for 30$ and it turned out to be fake, however it is made out of silver. So I've been stumped for the last few months on what to do with it. I have periodically thought about melting the silver inside the coin, and trying to mint my own "Greco-Roman" style coins using ancient techniques, sort of like an interactive experience of the minting process.
My other solution is to keep that coin as a example of a fake ancient coin.
What do you guys do with ancient fakes?
That is a fake Chinese Qing Dynasty cash coin . The Manchu script on the back is totally wrong is it combines Manchu letters with Chinese letters as well
Sorry to be clear, I am talking about the regular Ancient Greek person. Let’s say a merchant in Ancient Greece had a fourree in his possession. Would he be likely to pretend that it is a real drachm and let it circulate, or would he throw it away
In Ancient Greece, if a fourree was detected, would it stay in circulation or would it be thrown away?
So I was thinking about fourrees in Ancient Greece and I was wondering if in Ancient Greece if a fourree was detected, would they have kept it in circulation and retain its value as a drachm, or would it have been thrown away?
So I'm guessing you would have to go to a moneychanger to convert all your local Greek bronze coinage when you travelled. Another question I have that arose from your response is about the Ptolemaic bronze drachms. How did the Egyptians accept the "fiat" bronze drachmas as actual currency even though it wasn't silver. I remember that in medieval India, there was a muslim king( I forgot his name for the time being, but I think it was Mohammed Bin Tughlaq, correct me if I'm wrong) that ordered all precious metal coins in his kingdom to be converted into base metal imitations of those precious metal coins. This ended up destroying the economy, and the common folk started creating their own forgeries of those coins, causing rapid inflation. Over the course of twenty years or so, the coins were " plenty as stones", and stopped circulating at all.
Most of Alexander The Great’s drachms were minted posthumously. Most were minted in the few decades after his death, but they were still being minted as late as 80 BC
Could Alexander the Great drachmae circulate in the Eastern Provinces?
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