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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8109250, member: 115909&quot;]Beautiful coin panzer!</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Herodotus (writing in the 5th century BC) in his landmark &quot;The Histories&quot; it was the Lydians.</p><p><br /></p><p>He says:</p><p>&quot;So far as we have any knowledge, they [the Lydians] were the first people to introduce the use of gold and silver coins, and the first who sold goods by retail.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>— Herodotus, I.94</p><p><br /></p><p>Considering coinage was invented only a few centuries prior to Herodotus&#039;s own time I imagine people during his time would&#039;ve been well aware of who created coins first.</p><p><br /></p><p>300 years is indeed a long time but not so long that everybody would have forgotten who invented something as important as coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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