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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2137550, member: 26302&quot;]There has been two major hoards in which Type I&#039;s showed up, and both were found in western Turkey. I have seen many other hoards being found in Iran and Iraq, and almost never is a Type I found. IN fact, Type II&#039;s are very rare in hoards found there.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What evidence do you have Doug that coinage was required in Persia around 500 BC? There had never been coinage there before, so what evidence is there that somehow the ENTIRE empire, (the largest on earth at the time), suddenly overnight NEEDED coinage the instant they conquered Lydia? Lydia by this time had been striking coins for 150 years while the Persians never used them. Why are you so certain that suddenly they were NEEDED everywhere?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The main theory goes that after the Persians conquered Lydia they needed coinage for those people who were used in dealing with it. These were Type I&#039;s. Later, they instituted Type II&#039;s in all of western Turkey and the Levant. By the time Type III&#039;s came out Mesopotamia was getting used to dealing with them, and they spread further. The hoard evidence supports this view, with many more coins being found in the western reaches of the empire, and nearly none in the eastern half.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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