Comparing the Origins of Money
8 country histories of money
We will compare early coinage from Lydia, China, and India, which differed in shape and method of production.
- the 31st–18th centuries BC Mesopotamia Overview: the world
- the age of legend Lydia · The Pactolus Overview: the world
- the later 7th century BC Blank Electrum Overview: the world
- 600 BC Lydia · Sardis Overview: the world
- the middle of the 6th century BC Sardis · The Royal Palace Overview: the world
- the 6th–4th centuries BC India · Punch-Marked Silver Overview: the world
- 1852 London The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
- 146 BC – 3rd century AD The Provincial Market Greece
- Circa 296 AD A market in the eastern Empire Greece
- From 413 BC The harbor of Syracuse Greece
- Circa 525–515 BC The Minting Site Greece
- Circa 550 BC (disputed) The Port of Aegina Greece
- 6th century BC Striking workbench Greece
- about 575 BC Emporion (today's Empúries) Spain
- Second half of the 7th century BC Border with Lydia Greece
- Late 7th to 6th century BCE The port of Miletus Greece
- the 9th–10th centuries The Northern Trade Routes Overview: the world
- From 1284 Aegean port Greece
- 12th–14th centuries Rus' principalities Kievan Rus'
- from 1586 to the present day The gold workshop of the mint Netherlands
- 1717 The Barcelona mint Spain
- 1728 and 1730 Madrid Spain
- 1828 Aegina Mint Greece
- 17th-19th centuries Chinese market Mexico
- 1873–1875 Paris Mint Greece
- July 1883 The Jeonhwanguk in Hanseong Korea
- From 1892 The Mint Korea
- 1892–1904 Jeonhwanguk Korea