Solidus (coin) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 03/12/2018

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Solidus (coin)


00:01:01 1 Roman coinage
00:07:33 2 Impact on world currencies
00:07:58 2.1 France
00:09:14 2.2 Quebec
00:10:26 2.3 Italy
00:11:05 2.4 Spain and Peru, Portugal and Brazil
00:11:45 2.5 United Kingdom
00:13:25 3 See also
00:14:21 4 References



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The solidus (Latin for "solid"; pl. solidi), nomisma (Greek: νόμισμα, nómisma, lit. "coin"), or bezant was originally a relatively pure gold coin issued in the Late Roman Empire. Under Constantine, who introduced it on a wide scale, it had a weight of about 4.5 grams. It was largely replaced in Western Europe by Pepin the Short's currency reform, which introduced the silver-based pound/shilling/penny system, under which the shilling (Latin: solidus) functioned as a unit of account equivalent to 12 pence, eventually developing into the French sou. In Eastern Europe, the nomisma was gradually debased by the Byzantine emperors until it was abolished by Alexius I in 1092, who replaced it with the hyperpyron, which also came to be known as a "bezant". The Byzantine solidus also inspired the originally slightly less pure Arab dinar.
In late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the solidus also functioned as a unit of weight equal to 1/72 of a pound.