History of coins in Italy
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Italy has a long history of different coinage types, which spans thousands of years. Italy has been influential at a coinage point of view: the medieval Florentine florin, one of the most used coinage
A Magna Graecia tetradrachm, c. 415–405 BC
Etruscan coin, 3rd century BC
Silver coin minted in Corfinium during the Social War (91–87 BC), displaying the inscription ITALIA on the verge of the personification of Italy, represented as a goddess with laurel wreath
Roman denarius of Julius Caesar, 44 BC
Augustalis
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An augustalis or augustale, also agostaro, was a gold coin minted in the Kingdom of Sicily beginning in 1229 or in 1231 according to others.
Example of a Neapolitan augustale, showing a Roman Emperor