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  • 21Coins of Ireland — Irish coins have been issued by a variety of local and national authorities, the ancient provincial Kings and High Kings of Ireland, the Kingdom of Ireland (1541 1801), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland(1801 1922), the Irish Free… …

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  • 22History of the English penny (1485–1603) — The Tudors (1485 ndash;1603) Henry VIIHenry Tudor, who reigned as King Henry VII between 1485 and 1509, had a rather tenuous claim on the throne, being the Lancastrian claimant via an illegitimate descendant of Edward III when all the more senior …

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  • 23Gresham's law — is an economic principle that states: When a government compulsorily overvalues one type of money and undervalues another, the undervalued money will leave the country or disappear from circulation into hoards, while the overvalued money will… …

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  • 24Irish pound — Infobox Currency currency name in local = Punt Éireannach ga icon image 1 = Irish pound (obverse).png image title 1 = £1 coin (obverse) Irish Harp image 2 = Irish pound (reverse).png image title 2 = £1 coin (reverse) Irish Elk iso code = IEP… …

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  • 25History of banking — The first banks were the merchants of the ancient world that made loans to farmers and traders that carried goods between cities. The first records of such activity dates back to around 2000 BC in Assyria and Babylonia. Later, in ancient Greece… …

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  • 26Mid-Tudor Crisis — The Mid Tudor Crisis denotes the period of English history between 1547 (the death of Henry VIII) and 1558 (the death of Mary Tudor), when, it has been argued by Whitney Jones and others, English government and society were in imminent danger of… …

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  • 27Histamenon — of Constantine VIII (r. 1025–1028). Histamenon (Greek: νόμισμα ἱστάμενον, standard coin ) was the name given to the gold Byzantine solidus when the slightly lighter tetarteron was introduced in the 960s. To distinguis …

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  • 28Crown (British coin) — This article is about the British coin. For other coins called Crown , see Crown. Henry VIII HENRIC VIII RVTILANS ROSA SINE SPIA , crowned double rose flanked by crowned H and K (Henry and Katherine of Aragon); saltire stops …

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  • 29Sestertius — Coin image box 1 double header = Anonymous AR sestertius caption left = Helmed Roma head right, IIS behind caption right = Dioscuri riding right, ROMA in linear frame below. RSC4, C44/7, BMC13. width = 250 footer = AR 0.96 g RSC4, C44/7, BMC13… …

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  • 30Brazilian real — Infobox Currency currency name in local = real brasileiro pt icon image 1 = 1real 2.jpg image title 1 = 1 real (note) image 2 = image title 2 = iso code = BRL using countries = flag|Brazil inflation rate = 3.14% inflation source date =… …

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