According to the Economic and Monetary Union Act, 1998 of the Republic of Ireland which replaced the legal tender provisions that had been re-enacted in Irish legislation from previous British enactme ...
The term "legal tender" is from Middle English tendren, French tendre (verb form), meaning to offer. The Latin root is tendere (to stretch out), and the sense of tender as an offer is related to the e ...
A predecessor of the denarius was first struck in 269 BC, five years before the first Punic War with an average weight of 6.8 grams,or 1?48 of a Roman pound. Contact with the Greeks prompted a need f ...
In commodity money, intrinsic value can be partially or entirely due to the desirable features of the object as a medium of exchange and a store of value. Examples of such features include divisibilit ...
The United States and countries of the Commonwealth of Nations agreed upon common definitions for the pound and the yard. Since 1 July 1959, the international avoirdupois pound has been defined as exa ...
The Romans replaced the use of Greek coins, first by blocks and then by disks made of bronze Aes rude. The system thus named as was introduced in ca. 280 BC as a large cast bronze coin during the Roma ...
The history of the Royal Mint stretches back to 886 A.D. For many centuries production took place in London, initially at the Tower of London, and then at premises nearby in Tower Hill. In the 1970s p ...
Central Italy encompasses four of the country's 20 regions:LazioMarcheTuscanyUmbriaAs geographical region, Central Italy also includes the regions of Abruzzo and Molise.Central Italy (Italian: Italia ...
A metal is deemed to be precious if it is rare. The discovery of new sources of ore or improvements in mining or refining processes may cause the value of a precious metal to diminish. The status of a ...
The discovery of bronze enabled people to create metal objects which were harder and more durable than previously possible. Bronze tools, weapons, armor, and building materials such as decorative tile ...
Another approach was the addition of two sets of slides for different parts of the range. Some euphoniums and tubas were built like this, but today, this approach has become highly exotic for all inst ...
Modern brass instruments generally come in one of two families:Valved brass instruments use a set of valves (typically three or four but as many as seven or more in some cases) operated by the player' ...
Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, sought to demonstrate that markets (and economies) pre-existed the state, and hence should be free of government regulation. He argued (against conventional ...
Slavery has existed, in one form or another, through the whole of recorded human history—as have, in various periods, movements to free large or distinct groups of slaves.Ashoka, who ruled the Maurya ...
