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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancientnoob, post: 1653351, member: 44140&quot;]King Tut ruled <font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">1332 BC – 1323 BC nearly a thousand years before coinage would take hold in Egypt. Many people asked the question as to why the ancient Egyptians did not use coinage. I think the best answer is that during this time Egypt was ruled as a Communist Absolute monarchy. Where all necessities needed to live a comfortable life was provided by the state under the good graces of the Pharaoh&nbsp; and the abundance of the Nile floods. </span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">There is record that the Egyptians did exchange goods with the Phoenicians (5 or so loosely confederated cities in modern Lebanon.) This came as an exchange of Wheat and flax from Eygpt for wood and dye from the Levant from about the 2 millennium BC.</span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">Check out the last Pharoh....he had a coin....</span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"></span></font>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nectanebo_II<font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"></span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p>Then you see a vast series of coinage from Egypt being ruled by everyone else until the 20th century AD.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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