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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eparch, post: 4083121, member: 89211&quot;]The earliest monetary object was sold by Numismatica Genevensis</p><p>not long ago :</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1064743[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>Their Description</p><p><br /></p><p>Toutankhamon, around 1345-1327 BC JC Silver ingot, Phoenician counter in Lebanon. Punch in the shape of a jug with hieroglyphic inscription: Tutankhamon Regent of Heliopolis of Upper Egypt. The ridge on the top of the ingot shows the mark of the pincer that cut the silver before solidification. H 42mm, L (max) 20mm, Thickness 7mm. 41,55g. Michel Valloggia, Note on two silver ingots of Tutankhamun, Journal of Egyptology 68 (2017-2018), p. 141-152, ingot A.</p><p>The first monetary form of the history of mankind. Of incomparable historical importance. Superb.</p><p>From the collection Roger Pereire (deceased in 1968) and a private collection geneva since.</p><p>For a long time, many historians have wondered how an empire as powerful as that of ancient Egypt could have traded without money. Indeed, the earliest Egyptian coins known for a long time were imitations of Athenian tetradrachms and golden staters of Pharaoh Nektanebo II (361-343 BC), shortly before the conquest of Alexander the Great. Now a text, two centuries and a half later, to the reign of Tutankhamun, relates the misadventures of a certain Ounamon, who was in charge of the purchase of wood for the processional barque of Amon-Re of Thebes. A man of his crew would have fled with a gold vessel weighing five deben, four jugs of silver weighing twenty deben, and a small silver bag of eleven deben. The little sack of money was certainly filled with little ingots. The existence of such ingots was confirmed by the treasure of Tod, which contained twelve silver ingots, currently preserved in the Louvre and the Cairo Museum. The present ingot is distinguished by the presence of a detailed inscription: &quot;Tutankhamon Regent of Heliopolis of Upper Egypt&quot; (that is to say, Thebes). The name of the king is not surrounded by the usual royal cartouche (an oval underlined in one stroke, symbolizing the universality of pharaonic royalty). It is written in a jug-shaped jug or jug. The latter itself has a hieroglyphic meaning: &quot;hnm&quot;, which is found in the expression &quot;hnm m hd&quot;, meaning &quot;encrusted in silver&quot;. Moreover, the very shape of the object is reminiscent of the shape of the hieroglyph meaning &quot;ingot&quot;. This form was therefore obviously familiar to the ancient Egyptians. The extreme rarity of the existing copies today is explained in particular by the fact that Egypt did not have any silver mine. This came from exchanges with cities in the Middle East, such as Ugarit, Byblos or Beirut. One can thus think that such objects were reserved for particular or ceremonial purposes. This rare ingot thus constitutes the first monetary object dated in the world.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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