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Aksumite currency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom of Aksum or Axum), (Ge'ez: አክሱም), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing from the proto-Aksumite period ca. 4th century BC to achieve prominence by the 1st century AD. Its ancient capital is found in...
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Aksumite currency was the only native currency to be issued in Africa without direct influence by an outside culture like the Romans or Greeks. It was issued and circulated from the middle of the height of the Kingdom of Aksum under King Endubis around AD 270 until it began its decline in the first half of the 7th...
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By 270 AD, Aksumite kings issued a splendid gold coinage at a time when few other economies needed such a sophisticated currency or could have afforded it. Aksumite currency is of immense historical interest. It bore the names, effigies, and, in some cases, the descent of over twenty different kings,
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The creation of a system of currency is related to the intricate society that had evolved in Aksum. Aksumite coins were issued in gold, silver, and bronze. King Endubis used Roman weighting standards to issue his coins. The first Aksumite coins used had writing in Greek. This explains why the Aksumites began to use coins;
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For a bibliography up to 1995 see Munro-Hay S.C. and Juel-Jensen B., Aksumite Coinage, Spink, Pankhurst, R., 1986. Ethiopia and Sudan: Aksumite Currency, A Survey of Numismatic Research 1978-84, London, Vol. II, pp. 691-3. Pedroni, L., 1997. Una Collezione di Monete Aksumite,
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Definition of Aksumite in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of Aksumite. Pronunciation of Aksumite. Translations of Aksumite. Aksumite synonyms, Aksumite antonyms. Information about Aksumite in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. (redirected from Aksumite) Telemakos's home, the Aksumite Empire,
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1st c. BC, Proto-Aksumite period: 4th c. BC - 1st c. BC By the late 3rd century it had begun minting its own currency and was named by Mani as one of the four great powers of his time along with Persia, Rome, and China. Aksumite kings traced their lineage to Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
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The Kingdom of Aksum (or Axum, Geez á á á ±á ), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing from the proto-Aksumite period ca. By the late 3rd century it had begun minting its own currency and was named by Mani as one of the four great powers of his time along with Persia, Rome, and China.
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The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom of Aksum or Axum), Aksum was also the first major empire to convert to Christianity.
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