where and when was the first piece of metal to be considered a coin?

Question

were was it invented and when date and place

Answer 1

The question of the world's first coin, long debated, is still very much debated. In trying to answer the question, much depends on the definition you use for "coin." All coins are money (doesn't include tokens and other exonumia) but not all money is in the form of coinage. Much also depends on how you interpret the archeological and numismatic evidence or whose interpretations you believe. And much depends on how definitive you feel the evidence needs to be before you put forth or accept any given theory.

From examining the literature, the history, and the coins in detail, I believe that no coin type can stake a better claim for being the world's first than the Lydian coin called a third stater (or trite) but perhaps the largest denomination of its type and without question the most common. This coin was minted around 600 BC in Lydia, Asia Minor (current-day Turkey), a country in close proximity to both the civilizations of Mesopotamia, from which ideas about money and much else originated, and the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, through which ideas about coinage and much else spread.

This coin is smaller in diameter than U.S. half dime but is thick as a pebble and weighs almost as much as a U.S. quarter. It's made of electrum, an alloy of gold and silver called "white gold" in ancient times (50-60 percent gold with these coins). At the time of its minting, it may have been worth about a month's subsistence, a sizeable chunk of change. This coin is a more refined and more attractively rendered variety of the same type minted perhaps a decade earlier. One of the many fascinating aspects of this coin is the mysterious sunburst above the lion's eye. Another is the widespread debate among scholars about the coin's purpose and dating.

Answer 2

The history of coins extends from ancient times to the present. Coins are still widely used for monetary and other purposes. Any history of coins is going to be very incomplete, money being a central theme in human history since its invention. One could approach the history of minting technologies, the history shown by the images on coins, the history of economics, the history of coin collecting or collectors, or many other topics.

A recently published history of the greatest treasures and hoards ever found is fascinating reading. Many histories have been published of the politics around the creation of a single coin, notably the crime of 1873 and its connection to silver coinage of the United States. The history of mining, and various gold and silver rushes and their associated pioneer coining efforts are also extremely interesting reading. Even something as lowly as the history of counterfeiting leads one in a thousand interesting directions. Numismatics is, by its very nature, the study of history. Coins have often been referred to as "History in Your Hands."

In a tomb of Shang Dynasty dating back to 11th century BC shows the first cast copper money.

All western histories of coins begin with their invention between 643 and 630 BC in Lydia. Since that time, coins have been the most universal embodiment of money. These first coins were made of electrum, a naturally occurring pale yellow mixture of gold and silver. However, archaeologists have recently found 477+ ancient coins dating from 2000-4000 BC at an ancient Thracian site in Tekirdağ, Turkey; pushing the coinage date even further back.[[1]]

Also the Persian coins were very famous in the Persian and Sassanids era. There are lots of coins that have been found in Susa and in Ctesiphon

The most famous and widely collected coins of antiquity are Roman coins and Greek coins.

The Byzantine Empire minted many coins, including very thin gold coins bearing the image of the Christian cross and various Byzantine emperors.

Answer 3

Middle Ages, Europe

Answer 4

span 1388a.d

Answer 5

ok im egyption i will say egypt ;))