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A byzant is a coin made out of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium in ancient Greece.
Small change was carried in their cheek pouches. One of Aristophanes' comedies (The Wasps) has the females of the household french kissing grandpa when he gets back from serving on a jury to try to hook out the small silver (3 obol) coin which was his day's pay.
Coins date back to Ancient history to today. The earliest coins date on or before 700 BC in Aegina Island or Ephesus, Lydia. The first coins were made of a mixture of gold and silver that was alloyed with silver and copper. The Persian daric was the first gold coin, but some of the most famous were the Roman and Greek coins.
the drachma was an ancient Greek coin. Now, the Euro is used as Greek currency.
soldo scudo
obol is a silver greek coin
silver on the outside/ small gold coin inside
A byzant is a coin made out of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium in ancient Greece.
A zuz is an ancient Hebrew silver coin, of a value one quarter of a shekel.
Museums and private collections have thousands of Greek coins.
A small silver coin.
It would depend on the coin! They made many silver George V coins in 1929. It could be anywhere from a silver crown to a small penny.
Roman coins were made of bronze, silver and gold.
The coin would be so small you could not use it.
Athenians placed obolus/obol (a small silver coin) under the tongue of a deceased person, to pay the ferryman Charon for the trip across the Styx.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A coin to pay the ferryman to row them across the river to the land of the dead.
Yes, what little silver is in (or on) the coin is real silver.
The value depends on if it's a small gold or large silver one dollar coin, both were made in 1882.