The cowrie is the most widely and longest used currency in history. 1,000 BC: First Metal Money and Coins Bronze and Copper cowrie imitations were manufactured by China at the end of the Stone Age ...
Related: 32 stunning centuries-old hoards unearthed by metal detectorists The groat was a large silver coin first introduced in England by Edward I in 1279, and was valued at four pence.The ...
Two metal detectorists in the Netherlands stumbled on a collection of coins during their scouring, the findings later turned out to be a rare hoard dating back to the first century. The collection ...
Alyattes' coins were standardized based on weight ... making Croesus' system the world's first two-metal monetary system and the earliest gold standard. The gold and silver Croeseids had the ...