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The first coins were believed to have been made around 600 BC in Lydia, in Asia Minor. From there, the idea spread to all the Greek city states. These were scattered around the Mediterranean, in Greece proper, Asia Minor and Italy. Coins initially had religious or decorative designs. The conquests of Alexander and later of Rome led the way to political and personal statements on coins.

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Ancient Greece; Ionia-Miletus 478 BC - 390 BC AR Diobol	Boetia; Thebes 426 BC - 395 BC AR Hemidrachm	Thrace; Chersonesos 480-350 BC AR Half Drachm
Thrace; Istros 400-350 BC AR Stater	Thrace; Thasos 463-411 BC AR Stater	Thrace; Thasos after 280 BC AE15
Thrace; Apollonia Pontika 400 - 350 BC AR Drachm	Mysia; Parion 350-300 BC AR Hemidrachm	Attica; Athens 449 BC - 404 BC AR Tetradrachm
Attica; Athens 229 BC - 200 BC AR Tetrobol	Italy; Velia 365 BC - 340 BC AR Didrachm	Italy; Bruttium - Brettian League 215 BC - 205 BC AE18
Sicily - Syracuse; Agathokles 317 BC - 289 BC AE22	Sicily; The Mamertini After 210 BC AE Pentonkion	Ancient Greece; Delos 200 BC - 87 BC AE10
Pamphylia; Side 200 BC - 36 BC AE15	Ancient Greece; S. Thrace, Abdera 360-347 BC AE10	Carthage c. 300 BC - 250 BC AE 16mm
Himyarites Late 1st cent BC - Early 1st cent AD AR Denarius?

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