Nomisma

'''''Nomisma''''' ({{langx|grc|νόμισμα}}) was the ancient Greek word for "money" and is derived from nomos ({{lang|grc|νόμος}}) meaning "'anything assigned,' 'a usage,' 'custom,' 'law,' 'ordinance,' or 'that which is a habitual practice.'"<ref name=KJV_Lexicon>The King James Version New Testament Greek Lexicon; Strong's Number:3546</ref>

{{quote|...but money has become by convention a sort of representative of demand; and this is why it has the name 'money' (nomisma) – because it exists not by nature but by law (nomos) and it is in our power to change it and make it useless.|Aristotle, ''Nicomachean Ethics'' [1133b 1].<ref name=Aristotale350BCE>Aristotle 350 B.C.E., book 5</ref>}}

The term ''nomos'' may also refer to an approximately 8 gram Achaean coin denomination.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Greek%20Coin%20Denominations|title=Forum Ancient Coins|website=Forum Ancient Coins|language=en|access-date=2018-02-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ancientnomosart.org/exhibits/magna-grecia-lucania/|title=Greek, Lucania – 530 BC|website=ancientnomosart.org|access-date=2018-02-18|archive-date=2023-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203033448/http://ancientnomosart.org/exhibits/magna-grecia-lucania/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Other uses== In Modern Greek, the word ''nomisma'' means "currency".<ref name=_modernGreek>Greek-English Lexicon</ref> It is also a term used by numismatists when referring to the ''pieces of money or coin'' in the ''plural'' ''nomismata'' an example of which is the Aes rude of Numa Pompilius (the 2nd King of Rome).<ref name=Pliny_the_Elder77ACE>Pliny the Elder 77 A.C.E., book 34</ref>

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===Bibliography=== *''Ancient Greek-NOMISMA:'' "money", The King James Version (KJV) New Testament Greek Lexicon; Strong's Number:3546 [http://www.foreignword.com/Tools/dictsrch_aff.asp?menu=N&query=nomisma&src=CQ&go=Translate&trg=BP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711023837/http://www.foreignword.com/Tools/dictsrch_aff.asp?menu=N&query=nomisma&src=CQ&go=Translate&trg=BP |date=2011-07-11 }} *Aristotle, NICOMACHEAN ETHICS [1133b 1], translations: a) Thomas Taylor [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8438]; b) Sir (William) David Ross KBE [http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.5.v.html]; c) Harris Rackham [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0053&layout=&loc=1133b+1] *''Contemporatary Greek-NOMISMA:'' "currency"[http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820073805/http://kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon |date=2013-08-20 }}[http://www.in.gr/dictionary/lookup.asp?Word=currency] *Pliny the Elder, The Natural History,BOOK XXXIV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS. CHAP. 1. (1.)--THE ORES OF BRASS., Editions and translations: English (ed. John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley| Latin (ed. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff)[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=34:chapter=1]

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