1.To limit trade within a region under some authority/sovereignty.
2.For easier store/transport of value for goods/services etc
3.To replace the barter system by a unit value as medium of exchange,as measure of unit value,as the standard for deferred payment,as a store value,as liquidity without loss in value.
The earliest coins have been found in a tomb in China which dates to 900BCE, so they were invented before then.
I think they invented coins for trade, and they also invented a political system.
King Croesus of Lydia is mainly the individual associated with inventing and producing some of the earliest gold coins. Croesus invented gold coins around the 6th century BC.
Lydians have invented coins, in which we still use today. In fact, they were the first to mint(make) coins.
Coins were invented in Lydia - Ionia possibly in the area of Ephesus circa 650 BCE. They were made by a mix of metals [gold, silver and copper].
The earliest coins have been found in a tomb in China which dates to 900BCE, so they were invented before then.
I think they invented coins for trade, and they also invented a political system.
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inventions , coins and paper money
King Croesus of Lydia is mainly the individual associated with inventing and producing some of the earliest gold coins. Croesus invented gold coins around the 6th century BC.
Lydians
Lydians have invented coins, in which we still use today. In fact, they were the first to mint(make) coins.
Lydians have invented coins, in which we still use today. In fact, they were the first to mint(make) coins.
The first exclusively Australian coins were issued for circulation in 1910. Any coins circulated in Australia prior to 1910 were British coins. Occasionally there were coins from other countries suitably restruck for circulation in Australia.
Coins have been used in North America ever since European explorers first settled the continent. If the question is supposed to be about when the US started making its own coins, then the answer is 1793.
Nobody invented it. The traditional English coins were originally based on those current in the Dark Ages in western Europe.
Coins are not "invented", they're designed. The first circulating cents were designed by the US Mint's Chief Coiner Henry Voight.