Silver coins

thumb|Nations in red currently use the dirham. Nations in green use a currency with a subdivision named dirham. The dirham, dirhem or drahm is a unit of currency and of mass. It is the name of the currencies of Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Armenia, and is the name of a currency subdivision in Jordan, Libya, Qatar and Tajikistan. It was historically a silver coin.

thumb|Denarius of Mark Antony and Octavian, struck at Ephesus in 41 BC. The coin commemorated the two men's defeat of Brutus and Cassius a year earlier as well as celebrating the new [[Second Triumvirate.|360x360px]] thumb|right|Top row (left to right): 157 BC Roman Republic, 73 AD [[Vespasian, 161 AD Marcus Aurelius, 194 AD Septimius Severus; Second row (left to right): 199 AD Caracalla, 200 AD Julia Domna, 219 AD Elagabalus, 236 AD Maximinus Thrax]] The denarius (; : dēnāriī, ) was the standard Roman silver coin from its introduction in the Second Punic War to the reign of Gordian III (AD 23

The akçe or akça (anglicized as akche, akcheh or aqcha; ; , , in Europe known as asper) was a silver coin mainly known for being the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire. It was also used in other states including the Anatolian Beyliks, the Aq Qoyunlu, and the Crimean Khanate. The basic meaning of the word is "silver" or "silver money", deriving from the Turkish word () and the diminutive suffix .

currency of Abkhazia

thumb|250px|1690 Kreuzer of Friedrich Karl, administrator thumb|250px|1776 Kreuzer of Bern The Kreuzer (), in English also spelled kreutzer ( ), was a coin and unit of currency in the southern German states prior to the introduction of the German gold mark in 1871–1873, and in Austria and Switzerland. After 1760 it was made of copper. In south Germany the kreuzer was typically worth 4 Pfennige and there were 60 Kreuzer to a gulden. Kreuzer was abbreviated as Kr, kr, K or Xr.

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a price received for a betrayal (as Judas Iscariot received for betraying Jesus)

form of coinage

thumb|300px|Jovian (Emperor)|Jovian siliqua, c. 363. 18 mm and 2.2 grams. thumb|300px|Constantine III (Western Roman emperor)|Constantine III The siliqua (. siliquas or siliquae) is the modern namegiven without any ancient evidence to confirm the designationto small, thin, Roman silver coins produced in the 4th century and later. When the coins were in circulation, the Latin word was a unit of weight or value defined by one late Roman writer as one twenty-fourth of a Roman solidus.

Late 19th Century U.S. Dollar Coin

Silver coin

thumb|Imperial gold syceethumb|upright=0.8|Silver sycee thumb|Drawing of a boat-shaped silver sycee thumb|Silver sycee thumb|Gold sycee and molds

coin minted by the United States from 1794 to 1795

A sceat or sceatta ( ; , ) was a small, thick silver coin minted in England, Frisia, and Jutland during the Anglo-Saxon period that normally weighed 0.8–1.3 grams (about  troy ounce). It is now (as of 2024) more commonly known in England as an 'early penny'.

thumb|alt=Silver coin showing a man standing with a standard and a round shield behind his legs. There is writing round the edge including "TRPR" below the figure.|Reverse of a miliarense from the Hoxne Hoard. TRPS indicates the mint of [[Treveri (modern Trier, Germany).]]

thumb|A soldo of the Patriarchate of Aquileia (state)|Patriarchate of Aquileia issued during the reign of [[Louis of Teck (1412–1420).]]

thumb|right|An original Biatec and its replica on a modern 5-Slovak koruna|koruna coin, which was in use until Slovakia joined the euro zone on January 1, 2009 right|thumb|Biatec sculpture in Bratislava at National Bank of Slovakia Biatec was the name of a person, presumably a king, who appeared on the Celtic coins minted by the Boii in Bratislava (the capital of Slovakia) in the 1st century BC. The word Biatec (or Biatex) is also used as the name of those coins. In the literature, they are also sometimes referred to as "hexadrachms of the Bratislava type". Biatecs, in fact hexadrachms and tet

medieval silver Venetian coin

Byzantine silver coin

thumb|right|215px|Example of the first miliaresia, struck by Leo III the Isaurian|Leo III () to celebrate the coronation of his son, [[Constantine V (), as co-emperor. Notice the lack of any imagery except the cross.]]

trade coins issued by various countries

The stavraton or stauraton () was a type of silver coin used during the last century of the Byzantine Empire.

thumb|350px|Didrachm or quadrigatus (ca. 225–212 BC), with a laureate head of [[Janus or the twinned Dioscuri, and Victory driving a quadriga (four-horse chariot)]] The quadrigatus was a medium-sized silver coin produced by the Roman Republic during the 3rd century BC. The obverse featured a young janiform bust and the reverse featured Victory driving a quadriga (four-horse chariot), giving the coin its Roman name, with the inscription "ROMA" below.

thumb|right|200px|One of the first basilika issued, with a seated Christ and the standing figures of Andronikos II and Michael IX holding a labarum between them. The legend reads ΘΕΕ ΒΟΗΘΕΙ AYTOKPATOPEC PWMAIWN ("God aid the emperors of the Romans").

former Norwegian currency

currency used by IS

The Agontano was the currency used by the Italian Maritime Republic of Ancona from the 12th to the 16th centuries during its golden age. It was a large silver coin of 18-22mm in diameter and a weight of 2.04-2.42 grams, of roughly equivalent value to the Milanese Soldo.

Półtorak (lit. one-and-a-halfer) was a small coin equal to 1½ grosz struck in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th century, during the reign of Sigismund III Vasa and John II Casimir Vasa. Initially a silver coin, with time its value deteriorated and the coin went out of use. Augustus III of Poland unsuccessfully tried to reintroduce it as a copper coin. The name stems from the Polish word "półtora" meaning one and a half.

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Baltic region commodity money

ancient Jewish silver coin

thumb|200px|Lithuanian półgrosz from 1548 thumb|200px|Three Półgrosz coins of Władysław Jagiełło thumb|200px|Półgrosz (left) and szeląg (coin)|szeląg (right) Półgrosz (półgroszek, lit. half-grosz) was a silver and later copper coin worth ½ of grosz and 9 denars, minted in Poland, Lithuania and Silesia. Polish silver półgrosz weighing 1-1,7g was minted mainly from c.1367 to 1526 and occasionally from 1580 to 1792, from 1765 coin was minted in copper. Lithuanian silver półgrosz weighing c.1,3g was minted in 1495–1566.

The Mariengroschen ("St. Mary's groschen") is an historical coin that was a type of groschen minted in Lower Saxony and Westphalia from the 16th to the 19th century. It was named after the Virgin Mary who was depicted on the reverse side.

The gigliato, also gillat or carlino, was a coin of pure silver established in 1303 by Charles II of Anjou in Naples, and then also in Provence from 1330. Its name derives from the Lilies ("giglio") depicted on the reverse entwined around a cross. The coin weighed 4 grams. This type of coin was widely copied in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially by the Turks, such as the Emir of Saruhan.

currency issued by the Government of the Malaysian state of Kelantan

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silver coin of the Russian Empire

The Weißpfennig (literally white penny; Latin - denarius albus) was a form of silver groschen that was circulated in the Holy Roman Empire in the Late Middle Ages. It was also known as an albus or a Rhenish groschen (rheinischer Groschen). It was minted from the second half of the 14th century onwards in the Lower Rhine region by the four Rhenish electors of the Holy Roman Empire, who set up a joint mint in 1385–86. It was intended for everyday use, whilst the gold Rhenish gulden of the same era was intended as a trade coin. Those minted in Mainz were inscribed on one side 'Mainzer Rad' ("Main

British silver coin

thumb|250px|right|Example of the politikon coinage.

160px|thumb|Artiluc Artiluc (, ) was a silver coin forged and used in the 17th century in the Republic of Ragusa that had its capital city in Dubrovnik, modern-day Croatia.

thumb|200px|A styca of Æthelred II of Northumbria The styca (; . stycas) was a small coin minted in pre-Viking Northumbria, originally in base silver and subsequently in a copper alloy. Production began in the 790s and continued until the 850s, though the coin remained in circulation until the Viking conquest of Northumbria in 867.

The (lit: "one gold bu") was a monetary unit of Japan. The Ichibuban was a gold coin that was worth a quarter of a Koban.

currency in parts of the German Empire

Chinese silver dollar

type of coin

43–42 BC Roman denarius coin

Historical coin in China

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1883 Kingdom of Hawaii's set of silver coins

Latvian coin minted 1929–1932