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FORVM was an Austrian cultural and political magazine, published in Vienna from 1954 till 1995, founded by Friedrich Hansen-Loeve, Felix Hubalek, Alexander Lernet-Holenia und Friedrich Torberg with the financial and logistical support of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF).

In 1966 Günther Nenning took over as editor, in 1986 Gerhard Oberschlick.

Ancient Greek includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

It is often roughly divided into the Archaic period (9th to 6th centuries BC), Classical period (5th and 4th centuries BC), and Hellenistic period (3rd century BC to the 6th century AD).

It is antedated in the second millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek.

The history of Ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods, the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic and the Roman.

The Archaic period extends from the introduction of coinage to the Greek world during the 7th century BC until the Persian Wars in about 480 BC.

The Classical period then began, and lasted until the conquests of Alexander the Great in about 330 BC, which began the Hellenistic period, extending until the Roman absorption of the Greek world in the 1st century BC.

The Greek cities continued to produce their own coins for several more centuries under Roman rule.

The coins produced during this period are called Roman provincial coins or Greek Imperial Coins.

Byzantine currency, money used in the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the West, consisted of mainly two types of coins: the gold solidus and a variety of clearly valued bronze coins.

By the end of the empire the currency was issued only in silver stavrata and minor copper coins with no gold issue.

Roman currency for most of Roman history consisted of gold, silver, bronze, orichalcum and copper coinage.

(See: Roman metallurgy) From its introduction to the Republic, during the third century BC, well into Imperial times, Roman currency saw many changes in form, denomination, and composition.

A persistent feature was the inflationary debasement and replacement of coins over the centuries.

Notable examples of this followed the reforms of Diocletian.

This trend continued into Byzantine times.