1/9/2023 0 Comments Denarius roman moneyHe is the communications officer of Liberty Coin Service in Lansing, Michigan and writes Liberty’s Outlook, a monthly newsletter on rare coins and precious. Over the years, he has also been honored by the Numismatic Literary Guild (including in 2021 for Best Investment Newsletter), Professional Numismatists Guild, Industry Council for Tangible Assets, and the Michigan State Numismatic Society. He is also the recipient of the American Numismatic Association 2018 Glenn Smedley Memorial Service Award, 2017 Exemplary Service Award, 2012 Harry Forman National Dealer of the Year Award, and 2008 Presidential Award. Heller was honored as a 2019 FUN Numismatic Ambassador. Have fun doing your own research on monetary units. That denomination traces its history back to the thaler, first struck in 1518 as the Joachimsthaler in Joachimstal, Bohemia. If you really want to do some research, check out how many nations use the dollar as their monetary unit. For older monetary systems that were originally tied to weights, several nations around the globe use “pounds.” There are multiple European countries that use their national spelling of crown for the monetary unit, such as krone, krona, and koruna. There are some researchers that contend that the term peso originally derived to mean the same as the U.S. There are many nations around the world that use variations or real, reale, riyal, and the like. For example, look at the Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, North Korean won, and South Korean won. Several nations also use substantially the same name for their own currencies. The Venetian grosso from around the year 1200 evolved into the Polish groszy. Have fun looking up which countries across the centuries up to today have used derivations of the ancient Greek drachma (dram, dirham, tram, and others). The Roman denarius isn’t the only early coin that still influence today’s money.
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