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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JayAg47, post: 5296211, member: 112342&quot;]<b><span style="color: #b30000">1st century</span></b></p><p>66, Roman Empire- A Fat Nero! </p><p>However the Salus on the reverse is munted <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222777[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">52 BC</span></b></p><p>Celtic tribe of the Senones, potin unit. The tribe which sacked Rome back in 390 BC in the Battle of Allia!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222778[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">~150 BC</span></b></p><p>Early Pandyas, with elephant and stylised fish (their royal emblem). There are records from the Greek and Roman sources mentioning the trade with this Indian kingdom!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222783[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">268 –&nbsp; 232 BC</span></b></p><p>Mauryan empire, Ashoka. The first major Indian Kingdom to exist.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222782[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">328-323 BC </span></b></p><p>Alexander the Great Drachm, life-time issue- Lampsakos mint.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222784[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">~450 BC</span></b></p><p>Sicily Second Democracy Onkia, featuring Nymph Aruthesa, and octopus. My first European ancient coin that I got for the <i>KRAKEN</i>!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222785[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">525 BC - 475 BC</span></b></p><p>Ionia 1/12th Stater. Tiny, yet elegant!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222788[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">600 BC</span></b></p><p>Gandhara Janapada- 1/8th Satamana. While the consensus is that coinage originated from Lydia and Ionia, these underrated punch mark coins were also being used in commerce around the same period. This coin from the modern day Afghanistan is a great way to acquire one of the earliest form of metallic money!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222786[/ATTACH] </p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">1200-700 BC</span></b></p><p>Chinese cowrie-shell imitating deer bone money. Whether they were used as a currency or just a clothing decoration is for the debate, however the typical holed Chinese coins have said to be inspired from these holes bones, which were themselves imitated from the cowrie shells used as a form of exchange! furthermore there are gold and bronze &#039;cowrie shells&#039;, cementing the fact that these artifacts may have been indeed used as currency! Also, I&#039;d love to get a carbon dating of this piece!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222787[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A rough map of where all these coins came from!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222789[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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