Evidence from the archaeological and historical record of Ancient Rome and medieval Mesopotamia indicates that coins were collected and catalogued by scholars and state treasuries.

The Ancient Greek colony of Selinous ( Greek: Σελινοῦς, Selinoūs ), on Sicily, was named after wild parsley that grew abundantly there ; Selinountian coins depicted a parsley leaf as the symbol of the city.

The museum is named after August Kestner and exhibits 6, 000 years of applied art in four areas: Ancient cultures, ancient Egypt, applied art and a valuable collection of historic coins.

Ancient Rome | Roman coins excavated in Essaouira, 3rd century.

Ancient Chinese " money cards " have four suits: coins ( or cash ), strings of coins ( which may have been misinterpreted as sticks from crude drawings ), myriads ( of coins or of strings ), and tens of myriads ( a myriad is 10, 000 ).

Ancient Sparta minted coins from iron to discourage its citizens from engaging in foreign trade.

Numismatists have collections of these monetary tokens, which include coins from some Ancient World large-scale societies, although initial usage involved unmarked lumps of precious metal.

Ancient Chinese Cash ( Chinese coin ) | cash coins date back to the 2nd century B. C ..

In his lectures, illustrated from his own collections of coins and vases, he dealt chiefly with Greek and Ancient Roman pottery and numismatics.

Ancient Roman coins dating to the 3rd century have been found in Iceland, but it is unknown whether they were brought there at that time, or came later with Viking settlers, having circulated as currency already for centuries.

The Ancient Greeks are recorded to have played a game of tossing coins, then flat stones, and later stone balls, called spheristics, trying to have them go as far as possible, as early as the 6th century BC.

In Ancient Greece a Gorgoneion ( or stone head, engraving, or drawing of a Gorgon face, often with snakes protruding wildly and the tongue sticking out between her fangs ) frequently was used as an apotropaic symbol and placed on doors, walls, floors, coins, shields, breastplates, and tombstones in the hopes of warding off evil.

*, Ancient Elenic coins of Kyzikos

Indonesian Ancient Relics Conservation Bureau ( BP3 ) of East Java verified that those coins dated as early as Majapahit era.

Ancient Roman pottery, coins, and other Roman products are found in Irish archaeology from the period, though not in large quantities.

On the ground floor there is an extensive collection of papyrus and coins used in the Ancient world.

Ancient coins indicate preliminary plans to top the column with a statue of a bird, probably an eagle, but after construction, a statue of Trajan was put in place ; this statue disappeared in the Middle Ages.

The collection of antiquities includes coins from ancient times through to the Middle Ages, artefacts from Ancient India and Central Asia, Ancient Cyprus and Ancient Egypt.

Together these cover antiquities from Ancient Egypt, Sudan, Greece and Rome, Roman and Romano-Egyptian Art, Western Asiatic displays and a new gallery of Cypriot Art ; applied arts, including English and European pottery and glass, furniture, clocks, fans, armour, Chinese, Japanese and Korean art, rugs and samplers ; coins and medals ; illuminated, literary and music manuscripts and rare printed books ; paintings, including masterpieces by Simone Martini, Olivuccio di Ciccarello, Domenico Veneziano, Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Van Dyck, van Goyen, Frans Hals, Canaletto, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Constable, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso and a fine collection of 20th-century art ; miniatures, drawings, watercolours and prints.

Ancient coins were produced through a process of hitting a hammer positioned over an anvil.

Following this principle, in the most famous of Ancient Greek coins, the tetradrachm of Athens, the obverse is the head of Athena and the reverse is her owl.

Structures and other evidence of Ancient Pueblo culture has been found extending east onto the American Great Plains, in areas near the Cimarron and Pecos rivers and in the Galisteo Basin.

Ancient resources as well as recent archaeological evidence suggest that, at one point, Caligula had the palace extended to annex this structure. When several kings came to Rome to pay their respects to him and argued about their nobility of descent, he cried out " Let there be one Lord, one King ".

Ancient Sri Lankan texts such as the Pujavaliya, Sadharmaratnavaliya and Yogaratnakaraya and inscriptional evidence show that the above hierarchy prevailed throughout the feudal period.

Most of what is known about Pre-Contact (" Ancient ") Chamorros comes from legends and myths, archaeological evidence, Jesuit missionary accounts, and observations from visiting scientists like Otto von Kotzebue and Louis de Freycinet.

Ancient cities in the Middle East show archaeological evidence of having had fortified city walls.

Ancient pyramidical structures, tombs, ruined cities and stone walls such as the Wargaade Wall found in Somalia are evidence of an ancient sophisticated civilization that once thrived in the Somali peninsula.

Ancient scientists interpreted the rising of the Sun in the morning as evidence that the Sun moved.

The earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization of Ancient India as well as Classical Antiquity.

The study also concluded that “ Estimates of colonial Greek vs. indigenous Celto-Ligurian demography predict a maximum of a 10 % Greek contribution, suggesting a Greek male elite-dominant input into the Iron Age Provence population .” This evidence supports the persistence of the gene pool of the Ancient Greeks among the modern southern French.

The earliest known inhabitants of the southeastern and central Ohio region were the Hopewell, Adena, and Fort Ancient Native Americans, of whom little evidence survived, beyond the burial and ceremonial mounds built throughout the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.

Though the fork's early history is obscure, the fork as a kitchen and dining utensil is generally believed to have originated in the Roman Empire, or perhaps in Ancient Greece ( though there are some evidence of its use in Mesopotamia ).

While so-called ' pitched ' brick vaulting, which could be constructed without centering, may date back in the Ancient Near East to the 2nd millennium BC, the earliest evidence of the pointed masonry arch appears in late Roman and Sassanian architecture, mostly evidenced in early church building in Syria and Mesopotamia, but occasionally also in secular structures like the Karamagara Bridge.

The statement said that there was no credible evidence of contact between Ancient Egyptian or Hebrew peoples and the New World, as indicated by the text of the Book of Mormon.

The following excerpts from Lewis Morgan's " Ancient Society " will explain the use of the terms: " In a work of vast research, Bachofen has collected and discussed the evidence of female authority, mother-right, and of female rule, gynecocracy.

No evidence of it being used in a modern sense in Ancient Greek, but find it in Byzantine documents from the 6th century onwards, and most notably in the work attributed to Emperor Leo VI the Wise of Byzantium.

Although mentioned in the pyramid texts of Ancient Egypt as being a Nubian deity, there is no evidence that Dedun was worshipped by the Egyptians, nor that he was worshipped in any location north of Swenet ( contemporary Aswan ), which was considered the most southerly city of Ancient Egypt.

The evidence from this period, in the form mainly of place-names and personal names, make it clear that a Celtic language, termed Ancient British, was spoken across England by the Late Iron Age.

William W. Hallo ( 1996 ) recognises comparisons for Israel with its ancient Near Eastern environment, however, as regards tithes, comparisons with other ancient Near Eastern evidence is ambiguous, and Ancient Near Eastern literature provides scant evidence for the practice of tithing and the collection of tithes.

It also contains evidence of adaptations, using buildings of the Ancient Egyptians by later cultures for their own religious purposes.

He had a great enthusiasm for antiquities ; one of his projects, as he set out on his embassy, was the collection of antiquities, but also the gathering of first-hand evidence ( drawing, casts ) for Ancient Greek art, especially in Athens, as models for taste and artistic practice in Britain ; for which purpose he assembled a team of artists and craftsmen in Italy, on his way to Constantinople.

This is not a new concept ; archaeological evidence suggests that it was practiced in Ancient Rome.

There is both literary and archaeological evidence of trade between Ancient Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley civilization ( probably correctly identified with the land called Meluhha in Akkadian ).

Milton begins with historical evidence noting that Ancient Greece and Rome did not adhere to the practice of licensing.