A Common Origin for Coinage?
A Common Origin for Coinage?
It is often assumed that the “roundness” of coinage had been globally found to be superior to other forms of coinage in antiquity -- that is long before Leonardo da Vinci explicitly stated so. Drawing on primary sources and more recent archival studies, this chapter will revisit the question of precisely where and when money first originated or why its shape converged on the circular.
Keywords: Lydia, gold, silver, Greco-Roman world, Qin dynasty, Han dynasty, the birth of coinage, round coinage, Achaemenid empire, the Mauryan era
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