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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3183439, member: 26302"]I fully agree with your general categorizations Doug, of course. I would add, as color commentary, some more. There were some other "inventions" of coins throughout the world, but for various reasons did not become dominant. In Italy huge chucks of copper started, and in the eastern med copper in the shape of a bull hide predated greek coinage, but both failed in the face of the greek coinage in ease of use. In America, in Central and South America they started down the "Chinese" path of copper spades right before the Spanish arrived. Too many other examples are out there to list them all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Point being, it was not unique to these three cultures at all. Many cultures around the world were trying to solve for this, many things were invented around the world, but these three traditions were the ones that "won" and became the dominant themes of coinage for the next 2500 years. By 1900 the Greek coinage won, but that could be more of a function of western colonization of the world more than it being "better".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3183439, member: 26302"]I fully agree with your general categorizations Doug, of course. I would add, as color commentary, some more. There were some other "inventions" of coins throughout the world, but for various reasons did not become dominant. In Italy huge chucks of copper started, and in the eastern med copper in the shape of a bull hide predated greek coinage, but both failed in the face of the greek coinage in ease of use. In America, in Central and South America they started down the "Chinese" path of copper spades right before the Spanish arrived. Too many other examples are out there to list them all. Point being, it was not unique to these three cultures at all. Many cultures around the world were trying to solve for this, many things were invented around the world, but these three traditions were the ones that "won" and became the dominant themes of coinage for the next 2500 years. By 1900 the Greek coinage won, but that could be more of a function of western colonization of the world more than it being "better".[/QUOTE]
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