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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3121598, member: 10461&quot;]You go, Mister Metzger.&nbsp; You already know I like your Elizabethan newp.&nbsp; (I lost the auction on my intended one.)</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing:&nbsp; &quot;8th Century BC Greek&quot; will perhaps be a tall order, since coinage was barely invented then.&nbsp; Unless I am mistaken, the <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/themes/money/the_origins_of_coinage.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/themes/money/the_origins_of_coinage.aspx" rel="nofollow">coins of Lydia</a> in the <i>7th</i> Century BC are generally believed to be the world&#039;s first, though I&#039;m sure there were ingots and other forms of proto-money before that.</p><p><br /></p><p>And those Archaic Lydian electrum coins don&#039;t come cheap![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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