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Eastern hacksilber from the Achaemenid Levant, including jewellery and Greek coins, 425-420 BC.
Reference image by Classical Numismatic Group, Wikimedia Commons
Reference image by Classical Numismatic Group, Wikimedia Commons

1 posted on 07/19/2021 8:35:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

You will note that this ancient coinage was not backed by the full faith and credit of the govt who created it, and it still has value today


3 posted on 07/19/2021 9:19:45 PM PDT by algore
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To: SunkenCiv
Hacksilber is an irregularly cut silver bullion including broken pieces of silver ingots and [jewelry] that served as means of payment in the southern Levant from the beginning of the second millennium until the fourth century BCE BC.

FIFY

5 posted on 07/19/2021 9:24:41 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: SunkenCiv

Do you think there Roman Hunt brothers in three piece togas?


9 posted on 07/19/2021 11:28:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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