Roman currency: Roman Republic, Roman Empire, Roman Imperial Currency, Byzantine Coinage, List of Historical Currencies - Tapa blanda

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Roman currency during most of the Roman Republic and the western half of the Roman Empire consisted of coins including the aureus (gold), the denarius (silver), the sestertius (bronze), the dupondius (bronze), and the as (copper). These were used from the middle of the third century BC until the middle of the third century A.D.They were still accepted as payment in Greek influenced territories, even though these regions issued their own base coinage and some snake in other denominations, either called Greek Imperial or Roman provincial coins.