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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8543214, member: 84905&quot;]I think these ancient Egyptian ingots qualify as coins. They were stamped, standardized and probably functioned as means of payment and/or stores of value, even if their use may have been very limited. In this sense they are very much like the much later Lydian or Greek stamped ingots/coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think what is different is that they have been recognized as such only recently and (as Savitale pointed out before ), there does not appear to be a continuity from these Eqyptian ingots to recognizable coinage. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, I think it is quite possible that precious metal ingot continued in use from the time of Tutankhamun to the the time of the Lydians (some 800 years) and that the latter just built on an Egyptian idea, which never really went away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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