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scyphates

scyphates is the plural of scyphate.

Meaning of scyphate

Noun

scyphate (plural scyphates)

  1. A concave or cup-shaped coin.
    • The hoard from Tepe Maranjan near Kabul (Curiel, 1953: 101–131) containing 368 Sasanian silver drachms—326 of Shapur II, 28 of Ardeshir II and 14 of Shapur III (a.d. 383–388) with 12 gold Kushano-Sasanian scyphates, provides important evidence for the previous metal currency of eastern Afghanistan...1978, Frank Raymond Allchin, Norman Hammond, The Archaeology of Afghanistan from Earliest Times to the Timurid Period, Academic Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 251

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Questions about scyphates

What is scyphates the plural of?
Scyphates is the plural of scyphate.

Words near scyphates in the dictionary

  1. Scymraeg
  2. scyntigraphy
  3. scyon
  4. scyons
  5. scyphate
  6. scyphates
  7. scyphi
  8. scyphiform
  9. scyphiphorous
  10. scyphistoma
  11. scyphistomae

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