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Message:: [QUOTE="ErolGarip, post: 2830673, member: 88736"]Where might "how much money" have come from? (instead of "how many money")... is told in the linguistics forum in the last post  by "garipx" here <a href="https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/how-much-or-how-many-for-money.3356019/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/how-much-or-how-many-for-money.3356019/" rel="nofollow">https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/how-much-or-how-many-for-money.3356019/</a> Second paragraph is more about "coin" possibility, therefore, it is better to make another post here. If we draw a graph, like someone did, quantities with different types of coins versus years/centuries, I guess this can be said comfortably: in a century like 700BC that is the date of Lydian lion coin, numbers and types of coin were only a few, perhaps only some hundreds piece from that only one type lion coin. So, a century ago or two before that Lydian lion coin, there was only and only one coin, perhaps in a small blacksmith kind workshop where it was made for ornament before more pieces were made and later used differently like a money before it turned into the money that we understand today. So, that first coin which is a unique coin which can not be talked about its countable due to its uniqeness was most likely not a "model/sample" for  a prototype to be made in many pieces. That's, the first coin was not a designed coin sample to make many from it. That's, the first coin was not money, but, turned into money later when many same pieces were made by copying it. So, what do you think, can that first coin be found? If the ultimate goal of an ancient coin collector is to find a coin which is rarest and oldest, that first old coin must be searched. However, it should also be asked that to search that unique coin in all history is necessary or not.[/QUOTE]

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