The Maldives have been a Muslim nation for more than seven hundred years, and until the early decades of the present century almost nothing was known of the pre-Islamic history of this isolated island group. DENARIUS de-na'-ri-us (denarion): A Roman silver coin, 25 of which went to the aureus, the standard gold coin of the empire in the time of Augustus, which was equal in value to about one guinea or ,25 more exactly 1.0,6. Toddû is one of more than two hundred inhabited islands in the Maldives, with a population of 628 persons in 1978 (3). 4° 25' N., 72° 57' E., lying within the contemporary administrative boundaries of the neighbouring Ari (Alif) Atoll. Reverse of a Roman silver denarius minted in commemoration of the victory of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus over the. 211 BC 1 to the reign of Gordian III (AD 238244), when it was gradually replaced by the antoninianus. to the north-west of Male, the Maldivian capital, in c. dnri denarii) was the standard Roman silver coin from its introduction in the Second Punic War c. The principal parts of a Roman house were the Vestibulum, Ostium, Atrium, Alae, Tablinum, Fauces, and Peristylium. The denarius in question was one of two coins contained in a Buddhist stùpa on Toddû Island, a tiny coral outcrop some 58 kms. First, what is a denarius The denarius was a silver coin used for. further to the north, on Kadmat Island in the neighbouring Laccadives group (Indian Union Territory of Lakshadweep) during 1948 (2). The story of the roman denarius works as a great cautionary tale for currency debasement. This incidence of a Roman coin in the Republic of Maldives is apparently unique U), though a cache of Roman coins dating from the first and second centuries A.D. The present note is intended to place on record the discovery (and subsequent loss) of a Roman Republican denarius of Caius Vibius Pansa, minted at Rome in either 90 or 89 B.C., in the reliquary of a Buddhist stùpa excavated during 1958 on an isolated coral island in the north-central part of the Maldives Archipelago. 90 B.C from the Mal dive Islands, Indian Ocean
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