The Romans used coins of bronze, silver and gold. The most popular ones were the as which was bronze and the basic unit of their money, the dupondus, the sesterius both also of bronze. The denarius was their silver coin and the aureus was a gold coin.
Yes, at times they did. The value of the money was in the metal of the coin. If the drachma had the same amount of metal as the Roman coin, it was used. There are even records of the Roman army being paid in drachmas rather than denarii.
Greece around 700 BC (approx)
Lepta
obol is a silver greek coin
A byzant is a coin made out of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium in ancient Greece.
a denari was a coin in ancient times. Money
Museums and private collections have thousands of Greek coins.
They started to use coinage in the later 7th Century BCE.
The first human face on a coin was probably that of the goddess Athena, in ancient Greece. See the link below. Information about the first male depicted on a coin will take some more searching.
The 20 drachmai coin from Greece is a silver coin.
Taras, son of Poseidon, was rescued by a dolphin and this event was depicted on an ancient coin. The modern Greeks adopted this symbol
A drachma or drachme (plural drachmai or drachmes) has been used in Crete and Greece. In ancient times also in Illyria and Judea.
The Ancient Chinese created the first coin money with some of it in gold.
A drachma was a monetary unit in ancient Greece. You can earn a one-drachma coin by cleaning some graffiti from the Temple of Hades, but that is the only money you can earn. It is not used anywhere in the town, only on Mount Olympus near the game's end.
it is unknown because they were crude ancient coins made in Greece that were pressed it depends how much metal is used in the coin itself also depends on how old the coin is
In ancient India, people used money trees to store their coins. A money tree was a flat piece of metal, shaped like a tree, with metal branches. At the end of each branch was a round disk with a hole in the center. Each of these disks was an ancient Indian coin. When you needed money, you simply broke off a coin from your money tree.