#old coin

• Altun — An old Ottoman gold coin, occasionally used also in the Romanian Principalities during the period of Turkish suzerainty; a high-value monetary piece made of precious metal, used in major commercial transactions, for hoarding, or for paying tribute to the Sublime Porte.
• Altun — Traditional graphical variant (spelled with 'î') for 'altângea'; an old high-value Ottoman gold coin that also circulated in the Romanian Principalities, specifically used for hoarding, large-scale commercial transactions, and paying tribute to the Sublime Porte.
• Argenti — 1. An archaic name or plural form used in ancient commercial manuscripts to denote silver coins, thalers, or exchange pieces made of white precious metal. 2. A verbal form popularly derived from the regional verb 'a arginti', indicating the act of coating a surface with a thin layer of silver, giving pearlescent metallic reflections to an object, or, in the subjunctive mood, a desire for aesthetic transformation.
• Argenti — 1. A form of the verb 'a arginta', indicating the act of coating a surface with a protective layer of silver or imparting pearlescent metallic reflections to a natural element. 2. An archaic name or plural variant used in ancient commercial manuscripts to denote silver coins, thalers, or exchange pieces made of white precious metal.
• Aslan — An archaic term given to Dutch silver coins (thalers or löwenthalers) engraved with a lion on the reverse, heavily used in the Romanian Principalities during the 17th and 18th centuries; by extension, the term was popularly used to denote a very strong, courageous man, an imposing leader, or a person of high status, adopting the literal meaning from the Turkish language where the word means lion.
• Asteriscus maritimus — The scientific name of the gold coin aster (or sea daisy, recently reclassified as Pallenis maritima), a low-growing, mat-forming perennial plant in the Artsaceae family, native to the Mediterranean region; it is widely cultivated as an ornamental groundcover due to its bright golden-yellow flowers and outstanding resistance to salinity, maritime winds, and extreme drought.
• Bacus — An archaic or regional name historically attested for an old silver coin, a commercial token, or a type of symbolic rod utilized in specific medieval rituals or guilds. In a documentary sense, the term appears rarely within old inventories of goods and Transylvanian manuscripts to describe elongated marking objects or low-value exchange units.