system of coinage

Also included were demands for a uniform system of coinage.

He pretended an ignorance of the American system of coinage.

But the 1792 pattern piece was an attempt to manufacture a coin that would be the core of a decimal system of coinage.

A local system of coinage, including small silver coins (quinarii) and impure bronze ones served mainly internal trade.

The Kōchōsen Japanese system of coinage became strongly debased, with its metallic content and value decreasing.

Though there was a unified national system of coinage, every feudal domain was free to mint its own coinage as well.

In 1835, the EIC adopted a unified system of coinage throughout all British possessions in India and the older Presidency system was discontinued.

For a starter, our decimal system of coinage either goes down the drain, to be replaced by a new one, or lingers on as a clumsy anachronism like the British £/s/d.

Hippias succeeded Peisistratus in 527 BC, and in 525 BC he introduced a new system of coinage in Athens.

In 1790, Thomas Jefferson submitted a report to the United States Congress in which he proposed the adoption of a decimal system of coinage and of weights and measures.

Decimalization process refers to the conversion of a system of coinage or measurement to a "decimal" system, i.e. one where the all ratios between the different units are powers of ten.

In addition to new weights and measures, his proposal included a new calendar with sixteen months, a new system of coinage, and a hexadecimal clock with sixteen hours in a day.

During his tenure the first consular service was established, a post office department was initiated, a national bank was chartered, progress was made towards taking the first census, and a uniform system of coinage was adopted.

By the time that they introduced a system of coinage, the Roman state had become a dominant force in the western Mediterranean, having defeated Carthage during the Second Punic War of 218-201 BC.

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.

When Britain was under Roman rule, most of Britain used the coin-based monetary system that was used by the Roman Empire, but their system of coinage soon changed after the Romans left.

When the US system of coinage was originally designed there had been no plans for a gold dollar coin, but in the late 1840s, two gold rushes later, Congress was looking to expand the use of gold in the country's currency.

During his association with the Maesteg district he campaigned in Parliament for a decimal system of coinage and was largely responsible for the introduction of Britain's first decimal coin, the florin or two shilling piece (now the ten pence piece).