The chief coin type, a griffon, is identical with that of Teos ; the rich silver coinage is noted for the beauty and variety of its reverse types.

In his first coinage type, minted from the start of his reign, he imitated his father Charlemagne's portrait coinage, giving an image of imperial power and prestige in an echo of Roman glory.

As Chief Astronomer, Zhang Heng earned a fixed salary and rank of 600 bushels of grain ( which was mostly commuted to payments in Chinese coins | coinage currency or bolts of silk ), and so he would have worn a specified type of robe, ridden in a specified type of carriage, and held a unique emblem that marked his status in the official hierarchy.

Movable type traces its origins to the punches used to make coin s: the reverse face of a Tetradrachm Ancient Greek coinage | Greek coin from Athens, 5th century BC, featuring letters and the owl symbol of Athena.

Other early Roman coinage shows a warlike " Amazon " type, possibly Roma but more likely genius than dea.

The credit for the design of the gold coinage of this reign is usually given to James and Norbert Roettier, but the 1689 coin bears somewhat caricatured heads of the monarchs, and it is thought that this is in the style of George Bower ( d. 1689 / 90 ), an artist who designed the first type of penny and halfpenny of 1689 and also produced a number of medals with grotesque and cartoon-like busts.

The type of coins issued changed under the coinage reform of Diocletian, the heavily debased antoninianus ( double denarius ) was replaced with a variety of new denominations, and a new range of imagery was introduced that attempted to convey different ideas.

The introduction of a new type of government and a new system of coinage represents an attempt by Diocletian to return peace and security to Rome, after the previous century of constant warfare and uncertainty.

This type of coins were issued in India during the Mughal era ( the ' nisar ' coinage ), and in Europe in the age of absolutism.

The glossonym type giudeo-italiano is of academic and relatively late coinage.

Guilbert commented that " material girl " designated a certain type of liberated women, thus deviating from its original coinage which meant a girl who is tangible and accessible.

Coinage minted by Belgic Gauls first appeared in Britain in the mid-2nd century bc with the coinage now categorized as the " Gallo-Belgic A " type.

Therefore, this type of paper currency was intended to represent actual gold coinage.

* Gros ( coinage ), a type of silver coinage of France from the time of Saint Louis

The second type of approach makes use of the tendency for phonesthemes to participate in the coinage and interpretation of neologisms, new words in a language.

Bons persisted as the most common type of currency until 1812, along with the English pound, American and Spanish coinage, and the Halifax standard.

Since government-issued coinage was scarce during the Civil War, sutlers often conducted transactions using a particular type of Civil War token known as a sutler token.

* About Elymais and the type of coinage

A tremissis minted at Mérida, Spain | Mérida during Erwig's reign shows the face of Christ and precedes this type of representation in Byzantine coinage, which first occurred under Justinian II ( see: File: Solidus-Justinian II-Christ b-sb1413. jpg | here ).

After Rome became an Empire under Augustus, the nominal independence of Athens dissolved and its government converged to the normal type for a Roman municipality, with a Senate ( gerousia ) of decuriones.

When Republican Rome turned into a de facto monarchy in the second half of the 1st century BC, at first there was no name for the title of the new type of monarch.

Major films of this type during the 1940s included Bicycle Thieves, Rome, Open City, and La Terra Trema.

* Pizza bianca In Rome, the term pizza bianca refers to a type of bread topped with olive oil, salt and, occasionally, rosemary sprigs.

A Tyrian shekel of Rome, a possibility for the type of silver coin used to bribe Judas Iscariot. The stability of the Roman currency relied to a high degree on the supply of silver bullion, which Roman miners produced on a scale unparalleled before the discovery of the New World.

* Caravans make regular departures from Luoyang with Chinese ginger, cassia ( a type of cinnamon ), and silk to be bartered in Central Asia for gold, silver, glassware, pottery, cloth, and intaglio gems from Rome.

These paintings epitomized, both in subject and scale, the type of painting with which Ingres was determined to make his reputation, but, as Philip Conisbee has written, " for all the high ideals that had been drummed into Ingres at the academies in Toulouse, Paris, and Rome, such commissions were exceptions to the rule, for in reality there was little demand for history paintings in the grand manner, even in the city of Raphael and Michelangelo.

See also Imperial fora and Other fora in Rome for lesser fora and see Forum ( Roman ) for this type of ancient public square.

This type was long confined to Rome.

But after the fall of Rome, a new, feudal type of title, also known simply as palatinus, started developing.

In Ancient Rome, in a parody of fishing, tridents were famously used by a type of gladiator called a retiarius or " net fighter ".

Outside the sphere of influence of Charlemagne and his successors, however, the new legible hand was resisted by the Roman Curia ; nevertheless the Romanesca type was developed in Rome after the 10th century.

Most Roman towns and cities had a forum, temples and the same type of buildings, on a smaller scale, as found in Rome.

Edwards taught that a type of Millennium would occur “ 1260 years after A. D. 606 when Rome was recognized as having universal authority .” His Puritan contemporaries, Increase Mather and Cotton Mather, openly proclaimed a belief in a literal millennium.

Soon after Hugh had been acknowledged king of Italy at Pavia, he met with John at Mantua, and concluded some type of treaty with him, perhaps to defend John ’ s interests at Rome.

On October 29, 2009, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced Pope Benedict XVI's intention to create a new type of ecclesiastical structure, called a " personal ordinariate ", for groups of Anglicans entering into full communion with the see of Rome.

Serious opera was the natural realm for his voice type, and he rarely sang comic roles after his early appearances in Rome.

A deep fluted bowl with two small swing handles ( which were detached at the time of discovery, because solder tends to loosen during burial ) is of a type found in several late-Roman silver hoards, such as those in the Esquiline Treasure from Rome, and from Traprain Law in Scotland.

This type of craft was also adopted by Philip V of Macedon, and soon after by the Seleucids, Rome, and even the Spartan king Nabis in his attempt to rebuild the Spartan navy.

It is acknowledged that in St. Cyprian's time ( c. 250 ) it was universally believed that St. Peter was Bishop of Rome, and that he was looked upon as the type and origin of episcopacy.

The Villa Madama was the first of the revived Roman type of suburban villas designed for parties and entertainment built in 16th century Rome, and it was consciously conceived to rival descriptions of the villas of Antiquity, like Pliny's famous description of his own.

His early training as a gold smith allowed him even greater sensitivities to the sculptural nature of type ; the letters Jenson employed were capitals, often beautiful capitals that could summon the spirit of Rome.

Egeria as a nymph or minor goddess of the Roman religious system is of unclear origin ; she is consistently, though not in a very clear way, associated with another figure of the Diana type ; their cult is known to have been celebrated at sacred groves, such as the site of Nemi at Aricia, and another one close to Rome, expedient for her presumed regular meetings with King Numa ; both goddesses are also associated with water gifted with wondrous, religious or medical properties ( the source in that grove at Rome was dedicated to the exclusive use of the Vestals ); their cult was associated with other, male figures of even more obscure meaning, such as one named Virbius, or a Manius Egerius, presumably a youthful male, that anyway in later years was identified with figures like Atys or Hippolyte, because of the Diana reference ( see Frazer ).