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Asia Minor and the Birth of Coinage（FWF P30147, 2017–2020）

Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert (Austrian Science Fund FWF)

Claims Supported by This Source

  1. The first coins were struck in the 7th century BC in Lydia and Ionia in western Asia Minor.
  2. Until then, cut silver (hacksilver) and grain were used for payment.
  3. The deposit at the Temple of Artemis is certainly dated to the third quarter of the 7th century BC. The beginning was in the mid-7th century BC.
  4. The alloy of early electrum was mixed by human hands.

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