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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3496128, member: 98035&quot;]Ancient Egypt (Old, Middle, New Kingdoms) preceded the invention of money and was fueled by a barter economy.</p><p><br /></p><p>As stated above, Egypt fell to the Achaemenids in 525 BC but didn&#039;t start using money immediately - in fact the earliest coins minted in Egypt were imitations of Athenian tetradrachms, used primarily to pay soldiers. I honestly don&#039;t know how to tell them apart from the originals; they look identical to my eyes.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 404 BC, the natives rebelled and successfully shrugged off their Persian overlords and were ruled by a fairly rapid succession of native rulers until the 30th dynasty. Only the very last pharaoh, Nectanebo II (361 - 343 BC), seems to have minted coins: Very few survive to the present day, and there is scholarly discussion on whether the coins are genuine at all. This one sold for $130,000</p><p><img src="https://www.zeno.ru/data/6458/10102075.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=161242" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=161242" rel="nofollow">https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=161242</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are bronze coins formerly attributed to Nectanebo II , but these have more or less definitively been debunked as being Roman pseudo-autonomous issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nectanebo was defeated by the Persians, who resumed control. Production of Athens-imitations continued, but there are some very rare issues that bear native inscriptions:</p><p><img src="https://www.zeno.ru/data/6459/image01145.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=175864" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=175864" rel="nofollow">https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=175864</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As well as Aramaic:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.zeno.ru/data/6459/39817.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=213997" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=213997" rel="nofollow">https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=213997</a></p><p><br /></p><p>After Alexander, Ptolemy I took charge and began the Ptolemaic coinage that is widely available and affordable. His dynasty ended with the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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