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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 4547134, member: 26302&quot;]I understand, but by the time these civilizations used them extensively in trade they became so small and thin as to be useless for any other purpose. That explains the shape, but does not determine if it meets the definition of coinage. Early electrum were simply punched striated lumps of electrum, the same commodity electrum traded daily the month before. So why is that striated electrum lump a &quot;coin&quot;, yet a small thin piece of copper not? Neither have marks of value, neither have any value save for metal content.</p><p><br /></p><p>It just seems pretty Eurocentric to say one is a &quot;coin&quot;, the other something lesser. From the Chinese spades derived one of the greatest series of coinage on earth, the cash. Something similar probably would have evolved from the Aztecs had the Conquistadors not happened.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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