Coin and Empire. From the Achaemenids to the Hellenistic Kingdoms

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29.06.2017 01.04.2018 Coin and Empire. From the Achaemenids to the Hellenistic Kingdoms The Lydians, a people occupying western Anatolia, may have been the first to mint coins, not later than the third quarter of the 7th century BC. The practice of production and use of coins was promptly borrowed by the Greeks, who spread it in the Mediterranean world. The Czapski Museum