The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 38, September 19, 2004, Article 8

THE EARLIEST COINS?

  David Klinger writes: "Howard Daniel made a challenge to
  readers regarding the world's first coins. I thought that issue
  was long resolved by numismatic scholars, as the coins of
  Lydia (c 625 BC).   Is this issue still open for
  discussion/resolution? "

  David included the following text, taken from Eduardo De
  Resendes at the following URL: text

  "World's Oldest and Largest Piece of Currency Housed in
  Greek Museum Despinda Evgenidou, a fiscal archeologist
  and director of the Numismatic Museum in Athens says that
  a 3 foot long, 52-pound (24-kilogram) bronze ``talent'' that
  resembles a steamrolled sheep is the world's oldest known
  form of legal tender currency. It is also the largest. The heavy
  cash used in the 14th century B.C. was known as an ovelos."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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