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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8238426, member: 84744&quot;][USER=86498]@Terence Cheesman[/USER] and [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] have got this right.&nbsp; The first token AE coinage was introduced in Sicily and spread to the rest of the Greek world from there, gradually replacing tiny silver fractions.&nbsp; (Athens was one of the last holdouts.)&nbsp; The Sicilians adapted their earlier dot notation for values on the AEs.&nbsp; Hoard and other archaeological evidence indicates that these AE coins date to around 450 BCE, so most definitely earlier than the Romans.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have one that dates from around that time, but it&#039;s extremely crappy. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I think Doug&#039;s tooth coins, which go back to the same early date, are indeed coins; but there&#039;s no denying this one is:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449750[/ATTACH]</p><p>It&#039;s a cast onkia from Selinos, usually dated to 450-440 BCE.&nbsp; You can just make out the pellet above the kantharos on the obverse.&nbsp; The reverse is a selinon leaf.&nbsp; (Really, trust me! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure what the earliest date is for denominations indicated on Chinese coins, but here&#039;s one that could be as early as 300 BCE:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449755[/ATTACH]</p><p>It reads &quot;one hua,&quot; minted in Yi City in the State of Qi.&nbsp; (These are also the earliest round coin/square holed &quot;cash&quot; style coins. Well, either these or the earliest Qin ban liangs.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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