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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3348357, member: 56859&quot;]I was going to post that article too but Reid Goldsborough&#039;s website is defunct and the link is broken.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately, it was archived by the Wayback Machine.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a good link:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180301151305/http://oldestcoins.reidgold.com/article.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180301151305/http://oldestcoins.reidgold.com/article.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20180301151305/http://oldestcoins.reidgold.com/article.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And here is my own example of what is thought by some to represent the world&#039;s first coin, which happens to be a die match (obverse and reverse) to the coin that heads the article:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cointalk.com%2Fproxy.php%3Fimage%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fstatic.wixstatic.com%252Fmedia%252Fae43f8_d6bcd43a7ea240d0bea94dfa7f215c91%257Emv2.jpg%252Fv1%252Ffill%252Fw_1000%252Ch_625%252Cal_c%252Cq_90%252Fae43f8_d6bcd43a7ea240d0bea94dfa7f215c91%257Emv2.jpg%26hash%3D13aeeb67753c1a66b76a9f743d5b210d&amp;hash=e8644cbd37f9b988c75c06388533f683" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>KINGS OF LYDIA, temp. Ardys - Alyattes</b></p><p>c. 630s-564/53 BCE (dates from a CNG listing of a similar coin)</p><p>Electrum trite, 4.8 gm, 13.4 mm. Sardes mint.</p><p>Obv: head of roaring lion right, sun with four rays on forehead</p><p>Rev: two incuse square punches</p><p>Ref: Weidauer Group XV, 64; BMC 2 (I do not have these books and cannot verify)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You will probably find the whole article interesting and useful but if you don&#039;t wish to read the whole thing, scroll a third of the way down and you&#039;ll find a table in the form of a timeline.&nbsp; It covers, briefly, the earth and human timeline with emphasis on coinage and major points in ancient Greek and Roman history.&nbsp; Note that there has been other scholarship which has minor differences in the time frames shown for the earliest coins, and that there were other electrum coins struck Asia Minor which have utilitarian designs not thought to connote the issuing entity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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