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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 2253840, member: 44357&quot;]The definition of what constitutes a coin is somewhat vague, but I&#039;d argue that my earliest is this striated hekte, from ~650 BC:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1028.photobucket.com/albums/y342/AncientJoe/Striated_zpseyzidc4i.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Slightly earlier issues have no design whatsoever on the obverse and that begins to deviate from the conventional interpretation of a &quot;coin&quot;. It has also been argued that the first &quot;official&quot; coin is the Lydian trite, being issued officially by a government with a set exchange value:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1028.photobucket.com/albums/y342/AncientJoe/Trite_zpsrodnox2g.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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