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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nicholas Molinari, post: 2748226, member: 78411&quot;]Apparently I was mistaken, I see &quot;wedge&quot; but not &quot;wheel&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p>c. 1300, &quot;a wedge,&quot; from Old French coing (12c.) &quot;a wedge; stamp; piece of money; corner, angle,&quot; from Latin cuneus &quot;a wedge.&quot; The die for stamping metal was wedge-shaped, and the English word came to mean &quot;thing stamped, a piece of money&quot; by late 14c. (a sense that already had developed in French). Compare <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=quoin&amp;allowed_in_frame=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=quoin&amp;allowed_in_frame=0" rel="nofollow">quoin</a>, which split off from this word 16c. Modern French coin is &quot;corner, angle, nook.&quot; Coins were first struck in western Asia Minor in 7c. B.C.E.; Greek tradition and Herodotus credit the Lydians with being first to make and use coins of silver and gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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