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The Birth of Money

8 routes · 28 stops

The "birth of coinage" was not a singular event. It occurred independently in three great lands, and was afterwards repeated many times in various places.

  1. 3000 BC Mesopotamia  Overview: 2,700 years of the world
  2. the age of legend Lydia · The Pactolus  Overview: 2,700 years of the world
  3. 650 BC Blank Electrum  Overview: 2,700 years of the world
  4. 600 BC Lydia · Sardis  Overview: 2,700 years of the world
  5. 560 BC Sardis · The Royal Palace  Overview: 2,700 years of the world
  6. the 6th century BC India · Punch-Marked Silver  Overview: 2,700 years of the world
  7. 1852 London  The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
  8. 146 BC – 3rd century AD The Provincial Market  Greece
  9. Circa 296 AD A market in the eastern Empire  Greece
  10. From 413 BC The harbor of Syracuse  Greece
  11. Circa 525–515 BC The Minting Site  Greece
  12. Circa 550 BC (disputed) The Port of Aegina  Greece
  13. 6th century BC Striking workbench  Greece
  14. about 575 BC Emporion (today's Empúries)  Spain
  15. Second half of the 7th century BC Border with Lydia  Greece
  16. Late 7th to 6th century BCE The port of Miletus  Greece
  17. the 9th–10th centuries The Northern Trade Routes  Overview: 2,700 years of the world
  18. From 1284 Aegean port  Greece
  19. 12th–14th centuries Rus' principalities  Kievan Rus'
  20. from 1586 to the present day The gold workshop of the mint  Netherlands
  21. 1717 The Barcelona mint  Spain
  22. 1728 and 1730 Madrid  Spain
  23. 1828 Aegina Mint  Greece
  24. 17th-19th centuries Chinese market  Mexico
  25. 1873–1875 Paris Mint  Greece
  26. July 1883 The Jeonhwanguk in Hanseong  Korea
  27. From 1892 The Mint  Korea
  28. 1892–1904 Jeonhwanguk  Korea

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