{"slug": "roman-currency", "label": "Roman currency", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q952064", "qid": "Q952064", "description": "Currency of the Roman Republic and Empire", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [258, 400], "span_label": ["258 CE", "400 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 6}], "related": [{"slug": "september", "label": "September", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "diocletian", "label": "Diocletian", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ethiopia", "label": "Ethiopia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-aksum", "label": "Kingdom of Aksum", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arcadius", "label": "Arcadius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "augusta-honorific", "label": "Augusta (honorific)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 258, "year_label": "258 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "The amount of silver in the Roman currency of the denarius falls below 10%. The crisis ruins craftsmen, tradesmen, and small farmers, who are forced into bartering; landowners grow richer by buying up cheap land.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368343947#Roman_Empire", "title": "258", "revid": 1368343947, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 270, "year_label": "270 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "The Kingdom of Aksum (modern Ethiopia) begins minting its own gold coins to facilitate international trade, following the model of Roman coinage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358050431#Africa", "title": "270", "revid": 1358050431, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 274, "year_label": "274 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Aurelian reforms the Roman currency, replacing the denarius with a new version of the antoninianus that has a slightly improved silver-to-copper ratio. This overhaul of the currency system causes hyper-inflation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1271086341#Roman_Empire", "title": "274", "revid": 1271086341, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 276, "year_label": "276 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Tacitus doubles the silver content of the aurelianianus, and halves its tariffing to 2.5 d.c. They carry the value marks X.I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267074469#Roman_Empire", "title": "276", "revid": 1267074469, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 301, "year_label": "301 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "September", "text": "September: Emperor Diocletian issues a reform that revalues the Roman currency.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365564128#Roman_Empire", "title": "301", "revid": 1365564128, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 400, "year_label": "400 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "January 9", "text": "January 9 – Emperor Arcadius gives his wife Aelia Eudoxia the official title of Augusta. She is able to wear the purple paludamentum and is depicted in Roman currency.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347571639#Roman_Empire", "title": "400", "revid": 1347571639, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}