The ANGEL. previously, this coin was known as the NOBLE, and the new one (which had an angel on it) was known as the angel noble. As so often happens, the second (and technically corect) part of the name gradually fell out of use.
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The token coin currency of cheap metals was introduced by the Roman Empire.
Australia has never had a Farthing coin. Australia's own currency was introduced progressively from 1910.Any Farthings circulating in Australia would have been British Farthings and, there being no equivalent Australian coin, these would have been removed from circulation not long afterwards.
The currency of the Kingdom of England in 1700 was the Pound Sterling - exactly the same currency as the UK has now. Well, not quite the same. Today's pound has decimal sub-units. Before that, there were many different non-decimal fractions of a pound as well as there being the guinea (a gold coin worth 1.05 pound), which had its own array of sub-units. Also, there was no pound coin. The largest in that era was only 1/4 of a pound
The most expensive coin in the world is the 1933 Double Eagle US $20 coin which sold for $7,900,000
No, an official coin was made for all of Rome because of its size and different cultures, just as Europe made the Euro.