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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8553895, member: 26430&quot;]First I&#039;ve heard of them, very interesting. Assuming they&#039;re genuine, definitely somewhere on the proto-money spectrum. (I don&#039;t think you can really identify &quot;the&quot; first coin; it was a process, which stopped &amp; started multiple times around the world, and objects can be more or less coin-like.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I imagine the relative lack of attention is due to the absence of context. Not just a &quot;provenience&quot; (which would help w/ authenticity concerns) but to know important things like:</p><p>What were these used for (e.g., commerce, grave goods, religious offerings, a single contracted payment of silver)?</p><p>How many were produced? (Hard to call them coins if there were only two.) </p><p>* What was the weight distribution? (If there were bunch all weighing 41.5g or some multiple/ factor, then it starts to sound like a monetary unit/ coin.)</p><p><br /></p><p>In all the ways above, I actually think those weird bronze age European axe heads might have currently have the best claim to being the earliest (pre)coin, c. 2000 BCE.</p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/earliest-money-bronze-age.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livescience.com/earliest-money-bronze-age.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.livescience.com/earliest-money-bronze-age.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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