Mints of Spain
Coins | Mint
c. 500 BC/BCE to modern times
The ancient coins of the Spanish peninsula are of the following classes: Greek, Phoenician, Hispano-Carthaginian, Romano-Iberian, and Roman. The earliest coins struck in Spain (in late 6th or early 5th century BC) consist of small divisions of the Phocaic drachm, Thirds, Sixths, Twelfths, and Twenty-fourths, weighing respectively about 18, 9, 4½, and 2¼ grains. After the Roman occupation it started minting Imperial coins and after that period the most known coins are of the Visigoths until the 8th century CE. Then it continued to issue coins in Medieval times and in modern times as well.
Subject ID: 128679
Morec. 500 BC/BCE to modern times
The ancient coins of the Spanish peninsula are of the following classes: Greek, Phoenician, Hispano-Carthaginian, Romano-Iberian, and Roman. The earliest coins struck in Spain (in late 6th or early 5th century BC) consist of small divisions of the Phocaic drachm, Thirds, Sixths, Twelfths, and Twenty-fourths, weighing respectively about 18, 9, 4½, and 2¼ grains. After the Roman occupation it started minting Imperial coins and after that period the most known coins are of the Visigoths until the 8th century CE. Then it continued to issue coins in Medieval times and in modern times as well.
Subject ID: 128679
Subject ID: 128679
