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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3308602, member: 26302"]We have to be careful here. We have to remember the Egyptian civilization is MUCH older than the Greek one which invented coins. Therefore, over 90% of the Pharaonic kingdom existed before the invention of coinage. So it is unreasonable to look down on them for not using coinage in this period when it hadn't been invented. After coins were invented, my understanding is Egyptians were aware of them, but mostly treated them as bullion until maybe a few decades before the Persian took over the kingdom. It was at this time they transitioned to using coins more as a defined unit of value rather than just bullion, and started striking imitations of what the whole eastern med knew as "money", being Athenian tets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3308602, member: 26302"]We have to be careful here. We have to remember the Egyptian civilization is MUCH older than the Greek one which invented coins. Therefore, over 90% of the Pharaonic kingdom existed before the invention of coinage. So it is unreasonable to look down on them for not using coinage in this period when it hadn't been invented. After coins were invented, my understanding is Egyptians were aware of them, but mostly treated them as bullion until maybe a few decades before the Persian took over the kingdom. It was at this time they transitioned to using coins more as a defined unit of value rather than just bullion, and started striking imitations of what the whole eastern med knew as "money", being Athenian tets.[/QUOTE]
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