Volume 30, Issue 2, May 2017, Pages 137–139
Soltanova Nazila Baghir1
1 Doctor of philosophy, Associate Professor of the Institute of physics of ANAS, Azerbaijan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article deals with issues on the weight and monetary system of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Azerbaijan. The basic weight unit of that time called as the "Caucasian shekel" had its parallel functioning in the form of payment equivalents. The Bronze bracelets merged on the basis of that system. They functioned as money and at the same time as the weight standard. The article presents a new version of the system with respect to the weight of that time.
Author Keywords: sickle, bronze, bracelets, numismatics, the weight and the monetary system.
Soltanova Nazila Baghir1
1 Doctor of philosophy, Associate Professor of the Institute of physics of ANAS, Azerbaijan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This article deals with issues on the weight and monetary system of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Azerbaijan. The basic weight unit of that time called as the "Caucasian shekel" had its parallel functioning in the form of payment equivalents. The Bronze bracelets merged on the basis of that system. They functioned as money and at the same time as the weight standard. The article presents a new version of the system with respect to the weight of that time.
Author Keywords: sickle, bronze, bracelets, numismatics, the weight and the monetary system.
How to Cite this Article
Soltanova Nazila Baghir, “Ancient Azerbaijan's Bronze bracelets – the cash equivalent of the Bronze Age,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 137–139, May 2017.
