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<p>[QUOTE="Leviathan, post: 892846, member: 25209"]I always remembered that the people of Lydia (modern Turkey?) and Chinese were the first, in and around the Seventh Century BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Addendum - and whilst the Chinese may have had 'money' before then (spade, knife, pants, shirt money?), it wasn't until way later that they started issuing coinage with set standardised measurements, such as the King of Lydia had done.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Leviathan, post: 892846, member: 25209"]I always remembered that the people of Lydia (modern Turkey?) and Chinese were the first, in and around the Seventh Century BC. Addendum - and whilst the Chinese may have had 'money' before then (spade, knife, pants, shirt money?), it wasn't until way later that they started issuing coinage with set standardised measurements, such as the King of Lydia had done.[/QUOTE]
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