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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ErolGarip, post: 2858881, member: 88736&quot;]From here, I went to his blog, and found his this article, about &quot;Challenge Coins&quot;, </p><p><a href="http://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com.tr/2016/09/challenge-coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com.tr/2016/09/challenge-coins.html" rel="nofollow">http://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com.tr/2016/09/challenge-coins.html</a> </p><p>where he says: </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;... According to numismatist Martin J. Price, monetary coinage was invented about 600 BCE as a form of bonus payments to Greek mercenaries.&nbsp; “[As] bonus payments, the coins are more akin to gifts (or medals) than to coins as we know them.” (“Thoughts on the beginning of coinage,” in Studies in Numismatic Method Presented to Philip Grierson, Cambridge University Press, 1983)... &quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, it is clear, he shared his opinion of Martin J. Price in the book/article &quot;Thoughts on the beginning of coinage&quot; by Philip Grierson in 1983. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway. After all, I see that I&#039;m not alone in seeing all these coins as non-moneys.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ps: Thanks for keeping this old thread in the archive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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